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Wildlife laws under threat: Habitats Regulations
With a second reading of the Retained EU Laws Bill expected soon, we're sharing a series of blogs about the laws and regulations designed to protect nature that are under threat. Today, Sue…
Save our precious woodlands
Over the years we have seen just how vital our woodlands are for wildlife, from elusive goshawks and rare dormice to Purple Emperor butterflies and Pied Flycatchers. But we have also seen these…
Woodland
Woodlands are magical places, full of wildlife and full of history. Great spotted woodpeckers, nuthatches and jays flit between trees as butterflies dance in sunny glades. Badgers forage through…
Rocky habitat
Rocky habitats are some of the most natural and untouched places in the UK. Often high up in the hills and hard to reach, they are havens for some of our rarest wildlife.
Wet woodland
Wet woodlands in the UK can be wild, secretive places. Tangles of trailing creepers, tussocky sedges and lush tall-herbs conceal swampy pools and partially submerged fallen willow trunks, likely…
The woodland drummers
Meet the dawn chorus’s percussion section…
Citizen Science: Woodland Wildlife Survey
Get involved and help monitor our woodlands by setting up a camera trap on your land or identify wildlife online.
Wilder Diaries: The Habitat Group water vole reintroduction
We recently met with Sue Hadow from The Habitat Group in the South Hams, who have been running their exciting water vole reintroduction project, to find out more about their recent activities.
Charities urge stronger protection for sea around South West as landmark reports reveal amount of carbon stored in seabed habitats for the first time
New series of reports – The Blue Carbon Mapping Project – provide the first estimate of carbon stored in UK seabed habitats, including in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).
36.4 million tonnes…
Conservation charities win support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for woodland restoration and bringing back a lost member of our woodland communities
A partnership of leading conservation organisations has received a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant of £1.2million which will allow it to boost the recovery of the South West’s woodlands…
How to make a woodland edge garden for wildlife
Few of us can contemplate having a wood in our back gardens, but just a few metres is enough to establish this mini-habitat!