Slow worm
Despite appearances, the slow worm is actually a legless lizard, not a worm or a snake! Look out for it basking in the sun on heathlands and grasslands, or even in the garden, where it favours…
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Slowing the flow at Eycott Hill Nature Reserve
Artificial drainage ditches have been dammed at Eycott Hill Nature Reserve to help slow the flow of water from the uplands into rivers downstream.
Butterburn Flow
Wild and remote area of blanket bog on the Cumbria-Northumberland border alive in spring to the haunting cries of the curlew. Cloudberry, great sundew and bog rosemary and several species of…
Cold conservation days and coppice coup chatter - January 2020 Blog
We have had another wet month with the occasional beautiful sunny day. The tree nursery is starting to bulge at the seams with trees, with over 400 now and about 500 growing in people’s gardens…
Wild, Wet and Twig Who’s Who (Staveley Woodlands December Blog)
I thought I would start my recount of December with a big “Happy New Year” for 2020. I hope you all have lots of wonderful wild plans for the year ahead.
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Tim Farron MP Visits Natural Flood Defence Scheme
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP, Tim Farron, visited Birds Park Reservoir on Friday (23 April) to see a natural flood defence scheme designed to slow the flow of floodwater from Stock Beck East down…
General Election 2024 blogs by The Wildlife Trusts
This page lists blogs on: Reform UK's manifesto.
General Election 2024 – will you make your voice heard?
Could the general election provide the much-needed boost for our…
The Naddles Beck Project
Naddles Beck is a stream that flows around the east-side of Eycott Hill Nature Reserve, and runs all the way into the River Glenderamackin, which joins the River Derwent to flow through Keswick…
Natural Flood Defence to be created for Sandylands, Kendal
Volunteers have started work on a new natural flood defence project at Birds Park, to the east of Kendal, to help research the effectiveness of slowing the flow of floodwater from Stock Beck East…
Spiny lobster
Spiny lobster, crawfish, crayfish, rock lobsters - many names, one animal! This pretty lobster was made extinct in many areas through overfishing, but is now making a slow comeback.
My water filter
Duncan helps to manage the pockets of peatland at Bell Crag Flow, near Newcastle. The ancient landscapes that he works on are around 10,000 years old. These sites are great for wildlife but they…