Woodland
Our woodlands are a key tool in the box when addressing climate change for their carbon storage potential, but are less well known for their potential to limit flooding events, with wet woodlands…
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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…
Managing woodland nature reserves with deer in mind
Find out how and why we survey for deer at our woodland reserves
Family activity: Woodland maths
Why not combine maths skills with nature? Join Vicky for some easy ways to make that daily walk more educational.
'Woodland of Reflection' Forest Bathing - Windsor Great Park, Sunday 3 August
Find tranquility in the summer woodland, inviting calm and mindfulness as the season begins to shift.
How to make a woodland edge garden for wildlife
Few of us can contemplate having a wood in our back gardens, but just a few metres is enough to establish this mini-habitat!
Local Wildlife Sites
Local Wildlife Sites are special places recognised for having high wildlife value or containing rare or threatened habitats and species
Woodlark
The secretive woodlark can be hard to spot. It nests on the ground on our southern heathlands and uses scattered trees and woodland edges for lookout posts.
Some protection reinstated for at-risk Local Wildlife Sites
The Government has published a revised version of its National Planning Policy Framework which now includes some reinstated protection for Local Wildlife Sites following a campaign supported by 25…
Moorland
One of our most extensive habitats, moorlands cover huge areas in the uplands. Great expanses of unenclosed, wild-seeming land impart a sense of freedom and adventure, although the wide, open…
Heathland and moorland
These wild, open landscapes stretch over large areas and are most often found in uplands. Although slow to awaken in spring, by late summer heathland can be an eye-catching purple haze of heather…
Wood warbler
Look for the wood warbler singing from the canopy of oak woodlands in the north and west of the UK. Green above, it has a distinctive, bright yellow throat and eyestripe.