New ‘Nature Friendly Schools’ to help ‘green’ hundreds of school grounds and bring thousands of children closer to nature
£6.4m funded project to improve children’s wellbeing, learning and care for the environment.
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New legal protections edge England closer towards wild beaver return
The Wildlife Trusts welcome new legislation and call for sensible beaver management guidance
Volunteer
Volunteer to help wildlife in your local area. Volunteering opportunities range from community gardening, species surveying, caring for nature reserves, dry stone walling, hedge laying, habitat management, to running Wildlife Watch groups. You could volunteer organisational, IT, administrative or financial skills too. Both regular and casual volunteers are needed.
Lower Test Nature Reserve
This link will open on the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust website.
Just a stone's throw from Southampton Water and the docks, Lower Test is a patchwork of floodplain meadows, marshes and reedbeds that host a huge variety of wildlife.
Learning to nurture nature
Fiona Groves, education and learning policy manager, reveals why a Natural History GCSE could bring young people closer to nature.
Red clover
A familiar 'weed' of gardens, roadsides, meadows and parks, red clover has trefoil leaves and red, rounded flower heads. It is often used as fodder for livestock.
White clover
A familiar 'weed' of gardens, roadsides, meadows and parks, White clover is famous for its trefoil leaves - look out for a lucky four-leaf clover in your own garden!
Close e Quayle
This link will open on the Isle of Man Wildlife Trust website.
This nature reserve is a mosaic of grassland, curragh and open meadow producing a diversity of species, where butterflies, beetles and spiders abound.
Nature Fit Volunteer
This link will open on the Ulster Wildlife Trust website.
We are seeking volunteers to to help with practical work at the Bog Meadows site and neighbouring St. James Community Farm throughout the year.
Lion Creek and Lower Raypits Nature Reserve
This link will open on the Essex Wildlife Trust website.
Walk along the seawall around these two remote and wild nature reserves, where wildfowl and waders roost in their hundreds over winter and attractive salt marsh plants line the reserve during…
Hare's-foot clover
The downy hairs that cover the pale pink flowers of Hare's-foot clover give it the look of a Hare's paw - hence the common name. Look out for this clover around the coast and on dry…
Moor Closes
This link will open on the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust website.
Old pasture fields which are mostly low-lying and wet, with a rich, wet meadow and marsh flora.