Surveying our community orchard and chasing butterflies
Rough Around the Edges project officer Katie Horgan gives an update on her groups' latest activities across the Chilterns, including surveying plants in a community orchard, an informal…
Water vole by Terry Whittaker/2020VISION
Rough Around the Edges project officer Katie Horgan gives an update on her groups' latest activities across the Chilterns, including surveying plants in a community orchard, an informal…
A visit to a traditional orchard reveals gnarled old trunks of fruit and nut trees bursting with blossoms and young leaves in springtime, with wildflowers and insects populating summer’s long…
A great place for reedbed wildlife including a host of warblers and a variety of dragonflies and damselflies. You may also hear a cuckoo in spring.
Today’s The State of the UK’s Butterflies 2015 report from Butterfly Conservation and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology shows that more than three-quarters of the UK’s butterflies have declined…
At one of our guided walks with a community ecologist, I met Jean Hammond, a member of the Cowroast Copse community project – here’s what they’re up to.
The Crab apple is familiar as a small tree that produces yellow-green, rounded fruit that is used for making jellies and wines. It can be found in woods and hedges, as well as in cultivated…
Over the past 10 years volunteers at Letcombe Valley nature reserve have worked hard to create a haven for wildlife and people at the heart of their community
A wildlife charity is calling on the public to do one wild thing every day for a whole month this summer, as the UK’s biggest FREE nature challenge returns for its tenth anniversary.