"Nature is resilient and I find this grounding. No matter what is going on in the world, or in our personal lives, these trees will continue to grow and thrive as they are repeatedly coppiced…

Ecology trainee, Samantha Darley went looking for hazel dormice in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. What did she find?

"The wood becomes one again, no evidence of human intervention remains."

In the next in our series, volunteering administrator Wayne Brown chats to Kate Clayton-Hathway to find out what motivates her to act for nature as a volunteer for BBOWT.

Dave Dunleavy, ecology trainee, describes how to survey for water voles and how BBOWT's Water Vole Recovery Project has been helping them return from the brink

Chrystal Thompson looks back over a busy year as a conservation trainee with BBOWT at Greenham and Crookham Commons

Butterflies and flowers abound in the meadows of Finemere Wood

BBOWT volunteer, Alan White explains how he and a team of volunteers are conserving rare arable weeds at College Lake

"Each visit to Finemere Wood stuns us with the emergence of another species. Senses are overloaded with the wonder of bird song, the vibrancy of flora and the buzzing of invertebrates.…

Reserves Officer Glenn Hadley looks back on the trials of sheep shearing this year and considers how important our volunteers are in helping out.