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Latest tweets and news stories about our work, activities and events. Journalists can contact our press team to ensure enquiries will be dealt with immediately: Anna Guthrie 07887 754659 aguthrie@wildlifetrusts.org
Funding plea to restore landfill to Country Park
Friday 6th August, 2010
A unique plan to restore a landfill site into a nature park needs £40,000 to be raised before the middle of August to guarantee the transformation.
Global goodbyes for ‘Lady’ – the UK’s most famed osprey
Friday 6th August, 2010
The departure of the UK’s oldest breeding osprey, known as ‘Lady’, from its annual breeding ground at the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve and Visitor Centre has sparked a flood of goodbyes and well wishes from around the globe as concerns now mount that this could be the last time the famous bird is seen in the UK.
Look what’s living in our seas!
Friday 30th July, 2010
And take the chance to celebrate it with The Wildlife Trusts during National Marine Week
New era for restoring the natural environment
Monday 26th July, 2010
The White Paper on the Natural Environment provides a real opportunity to lay the foundations of nature conservation for the 21st century, according to The Wildlife Trusts.
If you go down to the bog today...
Thursday 22nd July, 2010
There are mind ‘bog’gling creatures lurking in the UK’s peat bogs – and The Wildlife Trusts are urging people to get out and discover them this International Bog Day, Sunday 25 July.
Listen up! Children to tune in to the sounds of nature
Monday 19th July, 2010
The Wildlife Trusts’ top groups for kids get wildlife sound recording equipment
Wildlife Trust urges Ministers to revise TB eradication strategy in light of appeal judgment
Tuesday 13th July, 2010
The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales has today welcomed the announcement that the appeal brought by the Badger Trust against the Welsh Assembly Government’s (WAG's) badger cull proposal has been successful. The Trust now urges WAG to revise its strategy for controlling bovine TB (bTB) in Wales in the light of the appeal and sound science.
Pioneering podcast offers bus users wildlife insights
Monday 12th July, 2010
A new way for urban people to get closer to nature has been created with the launch of Britain’s first free-to-download podcast introducing bus passengers to the nature points of interest along their route.
Wading birds find west Dorset haven
Thursday 8th July, 2010
There is cause for celebration at a west Dorset nature reserve, with news of the first ringed plovers to breed in the area. A pair of the small but striking wading birds has nested at Chard Junction Quarry, raising a family of four chicks. Just one year ago, Dorset Wildlife Trust and site owners Bardon Aggregates turned the disused part of the quarry into a community nature reserve for the benefit of local people and wildlife, hoping that wildlife would start to move in.
Endangered thresher shark sighted
Thursday 8th July, 2010
One of our most magnificent and endangered fish has been sighted catching mackerel off Bournemouth this week. Anglers Ben March and Mark Linzner were fishing from their 13 foot double kayak just half a mile out from Boscombe Pier on Monday evening, when they accidentally caught the young thresher shark.