Make Your Own Wormery
Alice Whitehead from Garden Organic shows you how to make a compact and cheap alternative to the traditional compost bin.
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Biodiversity Net Gain
Six months on from the launch of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), Phoebe Cox, Green Finance Manager at The Wildlife Trusts, reflects on how BNG is working in practice, and why Government, Local…
The Wildlife Trusts are restoring an enormous 60,000 hectares of peatlands – but it’s missing from UK Government’s net zero numbers
The Wildlife Trusts and University of Oxford have been working together to take a deeper look at how much peatland restoration is happening across our network of local Wildlife Trusts and what…
Fascinating flying ants
Sara Booth-Card, ecologist, peatlands and Action For Insects campaigner at The Wildlife Trusts, looks out for the telltale signs of flying ant days and shares her love for the underground world of…
Meet this year's inspirational marine volunteers
Since 2014 the Marsh Volunteer Award for Marine Conservation has been awarded to recognise the amazing work Wildlife Trust volunteers carry out to help save our seas. From logging hundreds of…
For peat's sake and our health, we need a better horticulture strategy
The UK fruit and vegetable sector is in trouble. It should be supported and expanded so we can all consume fresher produce and growers can invest in wildlife-friendly production. Our new report…
Sea the connection
Wherever we live in the UK, we’re all connected to the sea. For this year’s National Marine Week, we’re celebrating this connection and highlighting why a healthy, thriving marine environment…
Planning for success: how the new UK Government can deliver on housebuilding targets whilst tackling the nature and climate crises
With a new UK Government now in situ, Becky Pullinger, head of land use planning at The Wildlife Trusts, reviews what is needed to deliver on one of their key manifesto pledges – to build new…
The election results are in! So, what’s next for nature?
Throughout the election campaign, it became clear that people know that our natural world is in crisis and want politicians to make the bold and ambitious commitments to reverse the decline. So…
Breaking the silence on adaptation
Kathryn Brown from The Wildlife Trusts and Matthew Bell from Frontier Economics share their thoughts on why the next government must take climate adaptation seriously.