Wildlife traineeships
Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust offers voluntary traineeships providing skills and experience to kick start your career in conservation.
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Water vole by Terry Whittaker/2020VISION
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Wildlife Traineeships
We currently don’t have any traineeship opportunities available.
Below are some useful links to platforms where other environmental organisations advertise work experience, apprenticeships…
Teen snappers to show off their natural talent at BBOWT exhibition
Youngsters with personal challenges revealed hidden abilities in nature-based project.
Team Wilder: Developing a community networking hub
Lily O’Neill outlines an exciting new Team Wilder project to bring community groups together, helping to create more nature everywhere.
Whitecross Green Wood
A dynamic yet fragile woodland habitat renowned for its beautiful butterflies and wild flowers along the wide, grassy rides
Who says hedgelaying is a dying craft? Not us!
BBOWT volunteer Nigel Williamson explains why the ancient art of hedgelaying is still as vital for wildlife and conservation as ever
Parent bug
The parent bug lives up to its name. The female lays her eggs on a silver birch leaf, watching over them until they hatch. She stays with the young until they are adults. Other shield bugs lay…
Green hairstreak
The green hairstreak is the UK's only green butterfly. Look out for the vibrant, metallic sheen of the undersides of its wings on grassland and moorland, and along woodland rides.
Green woodpecker
The laughing 'yaffle' call of the green woodpecker can be heard in our woodlands, parks and gardens. Look out for it hopping about your lawn, searching for ants to eat.
Green Sandpiper
The green sandpiper is a very rare breeding bird in the UK, and is mainly seen on migration in autumn. Look out for it feeding around marshes, flooded gravel pits and rivers. It even likes sewage…
Common green lacewing
The common green lacewing is a lime green, delicate insect, with translucent, intricately veined wings. It is common in gardens and parks, where it helps to control aphid pests.
Green tiger beetle
A ferocious and agile predator, the green tiger beetle hunts spiders, ants and caterpillars on heaths, grasslands and sand dunes. It is one of our fastest insects and a dazzling metallic green…