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A robin perched on a branch of frosty crab apples

Winter colours

Winter brings long nights and dark days, but nature’s palette is as bright as ever.

Whooper Swan

Winter visitors

Birdwatcher Tom Hibbert is dreaming of a twite Christmas

The living dead

Tim Hill, Conservation Manager with Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust, is an enthusiast for dead and rotten wood and the animals that depend on it. Read on and find out why decaying trunks,…

Trees planted in tree guards in a field with a woodland in the distance

A new branch for Severn Treescapes

In March we completed the DEFRA Trees Call to Action funded phase of the Severn Treescapes Project. Although this part has come to an end, we’re proud to announce that we’ve successfully received…

A common sexton beetle, black with orange bands across its back, climbs a plant stem

Nature's undertakers

Discover the brilliance of burying beetles with Dr Ellie Bladon, an evolutionary ecologist based in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.

flowers with fence behind

Planning by numbers

The time it can take to build out developments granted planning permission is too long. The Wildlife Trusts’ head of land use planning, Becky Pullinger, discusses why.

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