Heathland - A Rare and Beautiful Habitat
Discover more about this unique and globally important habitat.
Discover more about this unique and globally important habitat.
Norfolk Wildlife Trust is the oldest Wildlife Trust in the country. The purchase of 400 acres of marsh at Cley on the north Norfolk coast in 1926 to be held ‘in perpetuity as a bird breeding…
The rare Norfolk hawker is a pale brown dragonfly, with a distinctive yellow triangle on its body. It is only found in unpolluted fens, marshes and ditches of the Broads National Park in Norfolk…
These wild, open landscapes stretch over large areas and are most often found in uplands. Although slow to awaken in spring, by late summer heathland can be an eye-catching purple haze of heather…
Heather is also called 'ling'. Look for it on our heaths, moors and bogs, where its delicate, loosely arranged pink flowers attract all kinds of nectar-loving insects.
Bell heather is our most familiar heather. In summer, it carpets our heaths, woods and coasts with purple-pink flowers that attract all kinds of nectar-loving insects.
Discover the wonders of the Brecks by joining us at our community open days across Suffolk and Norfolk, in partnership with the Brecks Fen Edge and Rivers Landscape Partnership Scheme, supported…
Complex mosaics of wet and dry heath, scrub, bogs, grasslands and open water
Join us for a field trip to Newlyn Downs SSSI where we will learn how to survey for plants indicative of dry and wet heathland.