The importance of glorious grasslands for wildlife and climate
A summer meadow is a beautiful sight, but there’s so much more to it than gently waving grass heads and fabulous flowers.
Blog: The Wildlife Trusts
Wild Writing by Nicola Chester
Get an insider's view into the work of the Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust. Find out what conservation work we're carrying out and meet some of the wonderful people, from our reserves staff to our trainees, that are behind everything we do.
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Vitamin N - using nature to help improve our wellbeing
30 Days Wild is the perfect opportunity to discover the health benefits of spending time in nature. Rob Gordon shares some of his top tips for relaxing in nature this June.
A guide to the blue butterflies
Butterfly expert Alan Sumnall offers a thorough guide to one of our most enchanting groups of butterflies – the blues.
The predators and prey living in your garden
Discover some of the predators stalking through your garden’s grassland and how you can make your garden even more wildlife-friendly.
Guide to the UK's woodpeckers
Meet the woodpeckers, the dawn chorus’s percussion section.
Farming announcement today a welcome step in the right direction
Today Defra has finally published more details on the Environmental Land Management schemes (ELM) that farmers have been clamoring for. Whilst many questions remain, The Wildlife Trusts, RSPB, and…
Landmark COP15 agreement gives nature hope for the future, if implementation follows
After twelve days of talks and two years of delay, negotiators at COP15 in Montreal have agreed a historic global deal to protect nature.
Twelve birds of Christmas
Discover some wonderful winter wildlife as part of The Wildlife Trusts' festive challenge, 12 Days Wild.
Marvellous mustelids
Mammal expert Stuart Edmunds introduces this incredible collection of carnivores, from badgers, polecats, pine martens and otters to stoats and weasels.
Hibernation – wildlife’s winter survival strategy
The Wildlife Trusts’ youth activism manager, Arran Wilson, draws on his background as a lecturer in zoology to explore what exactly hibernation is, and which animals rely on it to get through…