"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…

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

With nearly 90 nature reserves across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire to choose from, which are the best to visit this month?

Butterflies and flowers abound in the meadows of Finemere Wood

Little lizards, hedgehoglets and hummingbird hawkmoths among this month's wild highlights.

With nearly 90 nature reserves across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire to choose from, which are the best to visit this month?

With nearly 90 nature reserves across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire to choose from, which are the best to visit this month?

A summer meadow is a beautiful sight, but there’s so much more to it than gently waving grass heads and fabulous flowers.

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.…