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Springwatch Festival at Stanmer Park
Friday 4th June, 2010
Brighton’s Springwatch Festival 2010 is even bigger and better than last year. Sussex Wildlife Trust (SWT) is delighted to be working in partnership with Brighton & Hove City Council (BHCC) organising the Festival in Stanmer Park and plan some exciting hands-on nature based activities to appeal to all ages.
Volunteers help give otters a home
Friday 4th June, 2010
Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s Wild Penwith Volunteers have spent an enjoyable day building an otter holt near Drift Reservoir, near Penzance. The holt has been created to help this magnificent animal as it increases its range throughout Cornwall.
Opening up the underwater landscape
Thursday 3rd June, 2010
As World Oceans Day is celebrated on 8th June, an advanced seabed map has become the first in the UK to be made freely available to the public, making it possible to see the sea floor in all its glory, including reefs, wrecks and rocky ledges. Showing not only the contours but, via linked photographs, many of the habitats of the seabed from Abbotsbury to Swanage, the DORset Integrated Seabed study (DORIS) map allows divers, conservationists and marine planners to see exactly what is located at the ocean floor, whether for recreational diving or for decision making about the use of Dorset’s marine sites.
Osprey chicks hatch at Rutland Water
Thursday 3rd June, 2010
England’s only osprey reintroduction scheme chalks up another milestone
Blink and you’ll miss it…
Tuesday 1st June, 2010
Latest issue of Wildlife Watch magazine reveals the UK’s fastest creatures
Globe-trotting birds fly onto the net
Tuesday 1st June, 2010
Wildlife camera to document life of swallows at Cheshire farm
Be part of a BioBlitz!
Saturday 29th May, 2010
As wildlife dramas develop in the new season of BBC Springwatch, many of us will be itching to get out and experience the wildlife around us. And there is no better way to do this than to join your local Wildlife Trust for a ‘BioBlitz’!
Beavering away one year on
Thursday 27th May, 2010
A year ago, on 29 May 2009, Scotland’s first wild beavers for over 400 years were released into Knapdale Forest, Mid-Argyll. This marked the start of the Scottish Beaver Trial, a five-year time-limited trial reintroduction and a partnership project between the Scottish Wildlife Trust (SWT), the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) and host Forestry Commission Scotland (FCS).
Rediscover your wild side
Wednesday 26th May, 2010
With ‘152 Wild Things To Do’ and The Wildlife Trusts
It’s Time To Save Salford’s Rainforests!
Thursday 20th May, 2010
Controversial plans to extend the peat extraction license at Chat Moss in Salford have been criticised by the Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside, who are calling on people to send letters of objection to Salford City Council.