Bringing an ancient landscape back to life
South London's ancient wooded landscape is making a comeback
Throughout the Middle Ages, across a large swathe of south London, an ancient wooded landscape provided timber, charcoal…
South London's ancient wooded landscape is making a comeback
Throughout the Middle Ages, across a large swathe of south London, an ancient wooded landscape provided timber, charcoal…
London Wildlife Trust receives £699,000 from National Lottery players to revive the Great North Wood
Hi! I’m Gemma and I am the Campaigns Assistant for Essex Wildlife Trust. In my job, I try to share my passion for nature with others, while encouraging people to love, care and take action for…
Always fascinated by wildlife, Sophie has pursued a career in nature conservation through formal education and traineeships.
She now works as an ecologist, working to conserve Herefordshire’…
The fluffy, white heads of common cotton-grass dot our brown, boggy moors and heaths as if a giant bag of cotton wool balls has been thrown across the landscape!
In May, our hedgerows burst into life as common hawthorn erupts with creamy-white blossom, colouring the landscape and giving this thorny shrub its other name of 'May-tree'.
Our most familiar fern, bracken can be found growing in dense stands on hillsides, moorland, heathland and in woodlands. It is very large and dies back in winter, turning the landscape orangey-…
Nature Reserves Assistant Anna Guerin gives an update on the Brilliant Butterflies project.
Delve into the floral complexity of an ancient wooded landscape
Windy, open moors covered in bright yellow, spiky common gorse bushes and purple heathers are synonymous with what we call 'wild' landscapes, but it can be seen in many habitats, from…
In his latest blog about London's orchids, the Trust's Conservation Ecologist Michael Waller broadens his horizons...