Climate change is threatening the seasons as we known them. However, we know far less of autumn phenology than we do of spring. What happens, for example, when autumn arrives early and plants like bramble and hazel fruit before hazel dormice are ready to hibernate? With...
Deluge of litter and fly tipping since lockdown is a mounting threat to nature The Trust has reported an unprecedented surge in litter and fly tipping across its woodland sites since the national lockdown began - presenting a rising threat to nature. The Woodland Trusts 1,000 plus...
Thank you to our Hucking Orchard volunteers, Allen Goodwin and Raymond Kenward, for submitting this article for Whittle. The Orchardist constantly frets. If it's not Silverleaf on the Victoria Plums then it's canker in the Worcester Pearmain, and if by luck it's neither of these then...
The Bunce resurvey of ancient woods across the UK has started this week at Riding Mill Wood near Newcastle. This 3 year project (2020-22) has long been in the making, and despite delays due to the pandemic, the ecologists have begun surveys at English sites...
Take part on Tuesday 30th June and ask your MP for a green recovery. This Tuesday coming (30th June) more than 10,000 people will hold virtual meetings with their Westminster MPs and you can join them. Responding to Covid-19 has rightly been the priority over the last...
If you watch Good Morning Britain you might have seen Tring Park on there this week. It was used as a live location for their weather reports. Presenter Laura Tobin is a fan of ours and is often in touch asking about sites to visit. We...
The Covid-19 pandemic has hit us all hard but one of the really positive things that has come out of it is that many more people are getting out into nature. At Londonthorpe Woods in Grantham we’ve been keeping track of visitor numbers as part...
Gofynnir i aelodau’r cyhoedd fod yn wyliadwrus am y Fursen Coes-gwyn, sydd ar drai yn y DU. Fel arfer i’w weld mewn llystyfiant ar hyd ymylon afonydd, nentydd, pyllau a llynnoedd yn Ne Cymru a Lloegr, mae pryderon bod y rhywogaeth yn diflannu o rai...
Just a few short months ago, climate change was at the forefront of the public's mind. Now people’s attention is understandably elsewhere. But when we emerge from this pandemic, the pressing need to take action against climate change will still be there. That's why the focus...
With normal podcast recording hampered by lockdown, this episode follows author Tracy Chevalier on her regular walk among the trees of Hampstead Heath. She describes how trees bring her comfort, considers how lockdown has changed our attitudes to nature, introduces us to two trees that...