Forestry England Blog
For over 100 years, Forestry England have been growing, shaping, and caring for our nation’s forests.
For over 100 years, Forestry England have been growing, shaping, and caring for our nation’s forests.
Welcome to the month of martens. The month where you will discover how much there is to know about pine martens…and in fact…all of our native mustelids. These lengthy, fluffy critters have so much…
We’ve got less than ten years to begin reversing the declines in wildlife across the UK. If anything focuses the mind, it’s that. We know that what we’ve been doing so far in Gloucestershire,…
As our translocated martens make there way through their second winter here in the Dean (and their third lockdown!) we thought we’d look back on the past 12 months of the project.
The advance of last year left many of us reeling in its excremental wake. Some of us faced tragedy, many of us real hardships and all of us, I would venture, some measures of stress and anxiety.…
As we finish off our selection box chocolates and the leftover cheese from Christmas, let’s delve into pine marten diet. Here, we look at martens' favourite foods throughout the year and how…
When I was a child, my parents made me go for walks with them in the countryside. It was not my favourite activity: for me, the best bit of the walk was the point when we turned back. Despite this…
Lots of people get in touch with the Wildlife Trust with concerns about wildlife or habitats near to them being disturbed, damaged or destroyed. Most assume that such acts must be prohibited by…
’tis the season to be jolly….but are the pine martens decking the halls or do they know its Christmas time at all?
My year is bracketed by beetles. Glow worms (see previous blog) mark the end of spring and the arrival of summer. But when the leaves turn and the tawny owls begin calling and the nights start to…