Painting through lockdown
Local artist, Diana Bell used lockdown as an opportunity to paint her local wildlife and nature reserves, creating a beautiful record of the nature that she's seen this year.
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Water vole by Terry Whittaker/2020VISION
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Wildlife Trust launches £300,000 appeal to protect ancient woodland in Buckinghamshire
The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) has launched its £300,000 appeal to secure the future of Hamgreen Wood, an ancient woodland home to rare bat and butterfly…
A house divided cannot stand: development must work with nature for either to last
We need sustainable development that goes hand-in-hand with nature, not a new law that accelerates its decline.
Woodland
Woodlands are magical places, full of wildlife and full of history. Great spotted woodpeckers, nuthatches and jays flit between trees as butterflies dance in sunny glades. Badgers forage through…
The Guilty Gardener - reconnecting with nature through a rediscovered love of gardening
A chance discovery inspired local author, Annabel Christie, to a life-changing decision: to return to her past and embrace wildlife gardening again
A shameful step back for nature as UK Government pushes through damaging Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Despite valiant efforts by nature champions in the House of Lords, last night saw the Government bulldoze the wildlife-harming Planning & Infrastructure Bill through its last remaining hurdles…
Wet woodland
Wet woodlands in the UK can be wild, secretive places. Tangles of trailing creepers, tussocky sedges and lush tall-herbs conceal swampy pools and partially submerged fallen willow trunks, likely…
Thank you for helping us buy and protect Pixey Mead ancient meadow
We were given a rare chance to buy Pixey Mead and secure the future of this precious floodplain meadow forever. Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, we have been able to buy and protect this special place.
Northern gannet
Famed for its super-fast fishing dives into the sea, the northern gannet (or gannet) is a distinctive white bird with a yellow head and black wingtips. It nests in large, noisy, smelly colonies on…
Wild carrot
Wild carrot does, indeed, smell of carrots, but the roots are not like our cultivated, dinnertime favourite. Look for this umbellifer on chalk grasslands and coasts.
Managing woodland nature reserves with deer in mind
Find out how and why we survey for deer at our woodland reserves
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