Join the Action for Insects Wildlife Trust campaign
Download your free Wildlife Trust guide to positive actions you can make for insects, including dragonflies, at home and in your local community. Click here Insect numbers are on the decline in the UK, and globally, with 41% of known species classified as threatened with extinction. However, it’s not too late to reverse this decline, … Continued
#PondWatch Is This Weekend!
PondWatch was born in the first lockdown of 2020 as a way of bringing the magic of ponds to those who could not visit one. It was so well received that it has now become an annual celebration of all things pond and happens on the second weekend in June. This year PondWatch … Continued
New website for BDS Sussex Group goes live
Visiting Sussex for your staycation this year? Living in or near Sussex? The local BDS group’s new website has launched, with much improved images and info. Congratulations to Simon and the whole team. Enjoy!
Support Fiona’s Walk for Wildlife!
BDS Outreach Officer Fiona McKenna is currently walking the whole of the Viking Way to help raise funds for the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust! Go Fiona! Follow her progress and show her support on Instagram. Donate via her Just Giving page.
Between ages 12-18? Become a Junior Ranger!
Junior Rangers play an important role in looking after Protected Areas in the UK and the wildlife that lives there. By becoming a Junior Ranger you will have the opportunity to develop new life skills and gain experience completing outdoor practical tasks. You’ll also get a chance to socialise with like-minded volunteers and explore some … Continued
Get your Local Places for Nature pack!
Local Places for Nature is back! Nature is under threat and it’s time to take action. Keep Wales Tidy is excited to announce that applications for Local Places for Nature have reopened. Last year, more than 500 green spaces across the country were created, restored and enhanced. Community groups and organisations of all shapes and … Continued
Southern Damselfly habitat restoration in Pebblebed Heathlands
The East Devon Pebblebed Heaths support some of the last populations of Southern Damselfly in England. Volunteer Lesley Kerry has been monitoring these damselflies, and their habitat, in this lowland heath for many years, including a population on Colaton Raleigh Common. In the 1990s, the damselflies here bred in a shallow stream fed by a … Continued
Dragonfly recorders needed! Willington Wetlands, Derbyshire
The Wildlife Trust team at Willington Wetlands, Derbyshire, are excited that they will soon be hosting a family of beavers at the nature reserve! The beavers will be released into a 20 acre fenced section of the reserve where they can gnaw and dam to their hearts content. The team hopes that the beavers will … Continued
Dragonflies of Durham
Find out how Dragonflies are fairing across Wildlife Trust sites in Durham; Michael Coates, Durham County Dragonfly Recorder, reports on the recording effort and and results on WT nature reserves. Overall 20 species were seen, an impressive total for a northern county, with Rainton Meadows producing the most species sighted: a total of 16 over the … Continued
Welcome to Pond Ponderings – a pond blog by gardeners of all experience levels
Here you will find regular blog posts, Pond Ponderings, about garden ponds of all types and sizes created by gardeners of all experience levels and different budgets levels too. These posts will be honest accounts of the issues and joys that wildlife gardening and ponds in particular can bring. Including highlights of which species move … Continued