On the search for the elusive hazel dormouse
Ecology trainee, Samantha Darley went looking for hazel dormice in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. What did she find?
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Ramblings from Finemere Wood
"The wood becomes one again, no evidence of human intervention remains."
Spotlight on a volunteer
In the next in our series, volunteering administrator Wayne Brown chats to Kate Clayton-Hathway to find out what motivates her to act for nature as a volunteer for BBOWT.
Surveying for water voles, Britain's fastest declining mammal
Dave Dunleavy, ecology trainee, describes how to survey for water voles and how BBOWT's Water Vole Recovery Project has been helping them return from the brink
A year in the life of a trainee
Chrystal Thompson looks back over a busy year as a conservation trainee with BBOWT at Greenham and Crookham Commons
Ramblings from Finemere Wood
Butterflies and flowers abound in the meadows of Finemere Wood
Conserving arable weeds at College Lake
BBOWT volunteer, Alan White explains how he and a team of volunteers are conserving rare arable weeds at College Lake
Ramblings from Finemere Wood
"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.…
The Woolly vs the Willing – sheep shearing at Wells Farm
Reserves Officer Glenn Hadley looks back on the trials of sheep shearing this year and considers how important our volunteers are in helping out.
Spotlight on a volunteer
In the next in our series, volunteering administrator Wayne Brown chats to Nick Marriner to find out what motivates him to act for nature as a volunteer for BBOWT.