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cowslips

Colourful cowslips

What colour comes to mind when you think of spring? Maybe it’s the fresh green of new leaves budding from trees and shoots pushing up from the ground, or the fizz of white spring blossom in…

Fencing on the Bourne Rivulet at Stoke © Wessex Rivers Trust

Stopping Sediment in Stoke

The clear water and gravelly beds of chalk streams offer fantastic habitat for wildlife. At Stoke, the Watercress and Winterbournes partners have been working to keep them that way.

Male house sparrow

The humble house sparrow

Tom Hibbert, birdwatcher and content officer for The Wildlife Trusts, takes a closer look at one of the UK’s most familiar birds.

Oil beetle

The brilliance of beetles

Steve Garland, chair of Lancashire Wildlife Trust and beetle expert, explores the world of these incredible, armoured insects.

Dunlin in flight

Overwintering bird surveys

We take you through some of the techniques and findings from our overwintering bird surveys

Arial shot of tipner

Lennox Point

Portsmouth City Council recently announced a rebrand of their ‘super-peninsula’ proposals for Tipner West, promoting ‘Lennox Point’ as ‘a unique site where land meets sea, it will be an iconic and…

Water Vole

Wonderful water voles

Are you lucky enough to have seen a water vole? Sadly, these cute river-dwellers have undergone some of the worse declines of any British mammals. We look at some of the reasons why for…

Chalk stream at Winnall Moors © Martin de Retuerto

The importance of chalk streams

For World Action on Rivers Day we celebrate and explore our chalk streams, some of Hampshire's most special habitats.

An underwater photograph of a seagrass bed featuring snakelocks anemones

Seagrass: A Seabed Superhero

Have you ever heard of seagrass? This amazing plant provides an impressive list of environmental services – supplying vital habitat to wildlife and fisheries, protecting our shores from erosion…

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