Hedgerow
Hedgerows are one of our most easily encountered wildlife habitats, found lining roads, railways and footpaths, bordering fields and gardens and on the coast.
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How to manage a hedgerow for wildlife
An introduction to the basics of managing hedgerows for wildlife.
Carbon Removals
The Wildlife Trusts are restoring woodlands and peat lands to sequester carbon, enhance biodiversity, and reduce emissions. These projects also offer flood and drought mitigation, public health improvements, increased access to nature, new jobs, and volunteer opportunities.
European hedgehog
Considered a gardener’s best friend, hedgehogs will happily hoover up insects roaming in vegetable beds. Famously covered in spines, hedgehogs like to eat all sorts of bugs and crunchy beetles.…
Planning applications and wildlife
Development can cause serious harm to wildlife but it does not have to. Development can also deliver valuable biodiversity enhancement. Influencing a planning proposal is as much about promoting positive outcomes as it is about fighting harmful proposals. Information and advice on planning applications.
Great news for Gwent Levels as motorway plans scrapped
The Welsh Government has shown its commitment to a wilder future today, after rejecting plans to build an M4 relief road across the Gwent Levels.
Carbon Removals Expression of Interest
We welcome new funding partners looking to join us in restoring our woodlands and peat lands at scale, offering high-integrity carbon removals in return.
Spring 2020 magazine UK News
Updates from the Wildlife Trusts
Over Kellet Pond
This link will open on the Lancashire Wildlife Trust website.
Wetland plants, important invertebrates and protected amphibians show why our smallest nature reserve is also one of the most important.
Help a hedgehog
What to do if you spot a hedgehog out in daylight, how to check your bonfire for hedgehogs and how to create a hedgehog house in your garden.
Skomer Island Weekly Volunteering - 2026 applications CLOSED
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Thank you for your interest in volunteering on Skomer. Applications for 2026 are now closed. Applications for 2027 will open on 1st September 2026.
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The story’s not over – it’s just beginning
John Simmons is co-founder of '26', a diverse group of people who share a love of words. They have embarked on a project to write about the species that are facing extinction today.