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The Wildlife Trusts share why we do not support fracking, including the potential for negative environmental impacts.
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Volunteer Day: planting trees, raking and burning arisings at Horsley Meadows
This link will open on the Surrey Wildlife Trust website.
Join SWT staff and volunteers to undertake practical activities to help conserve the local environment.
Enter a bewitching world of blooms and butterflies this weekend and search for the delights of devil’s-bit scabious and dark green fritillaries
Celebrate National Meadows Day by tracking down a host of enchantingly-named wildflowers and butterflies in a meadow…
Wildlife Walk: Tollesbury Wick
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Blow away the cobwebs with a bracing stroll round this excellent Essex Wildlife Trust reserve on the Blackwater estuary.
Cooksbridge Meadow
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Quiet pasture and small woodland backing onto a stream
Haydon Hill
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A chalk grassland on a steep north facing slope
Downlooker snipefly
The Downlooker snipefly gets its name from its habit of sitting on posts or sunny trees with its head facing down to the ground, waiting for passing prey. It prefers grassland, scrub and woodland…
Farfields Meadows
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Two west facing species-rich meadows with wet flushes
Thorley Wash
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A reserve filled with birdsong south of Bishop’s Stortford, and one of a string of wetlands flanking the Stort Navigation.
Low Wood Nature Reserve
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This secluded canal-side spot offers a tranquil escape from the bustle of urban Keighley and Bradford, while the cliffs above it provide cracking glimpses of the Aire valley.
Fit for purpose? Reflections on emerging agriculture policy – will it help arrest the climate and ecological emergency?
Ellie Brodie, Head of Land Management, takes a look at how the Agriculture Bill and recent Defra policy statements are stacking up for wildlife and wild places.
Nature policy: Turning the tide
2025 has seen nature take a battering from Ministers – blamed for slow development and facing the risk of losing some vital protections. But it’s not all bad news. Matt Browne, Head of Public…