I joined the Northern Outreach team in November 2018 as an Outreach Adviser for the Northern Forest, having been at the Trust for 3 years. It is pretty much my dream job – getting to work and live in the north, explore the wide ranging...
Nature’s Calendar is an important UK phenology database containing nearly three million records dating back to 1736. Phenology is the study of seasonal changes in plants and animals from year to year, such as flowering of plants, emergence of insects and migration of...
It was lovely to be joined by so many of you at our North East Volunteer Gathering, which took place at Gibside Estate, near Gateshead last Saturday. After a beautiful, if slightly invigorating 20 minute walk across the estate in the sunshine, the morning was spent...
Last week saw the second of this years volunteer led guided walks taking place at our Nidd Gorge site, near Knaresborough. The sun shone, the birds sang and all in all for those coming along it made for a pretty idyllic, as well as very...
A big thanks to all at Lanchester Widlife Group who have been hard at work over the last few years waging war on the himalayan balsam in Dora's Wood, near Lanchester Thanks to their amazing efforts the balsam was fairly hard to find in the wood...
A huge thank you to all of our Skipton volunteers who have given their time and energy to come and support our mobile visitor centre, which has been present on the main high street in Skipton for the last two and a half weeks. It...
A huge thanks to all of the members of the Grappenhall Wood group, Cheshire, who got together last week on the 26th June, for a day of balsam pulling at the wood. It has made a really big impact and all the hard work was...
A four year project that aims to create a flourishing woodland culture in Co Durham is set to go ahead thanks to National Lottery Heritage Fund support. NLHF approved the Durham Woodland Revival project, which will cost more than £800k over four years and will see...
Mae app dwyieithog newydd yn caniatáu i unrhyw sydd â ffôn clyfar i helpu arolygu a gwarchod ein gwrychoedd/perthi anhygoel. Mae rhai ohonyn nhw’n filoedd o flynyddoedd oed. Dyma weddillion y coetir a oroesodd pan gliriwyd y tir ar gyfer amaethyddiaeth. Nhw, bellach, yw gewynnau tirlun...
New bilingual app allows anyone with access to a smartphone to help survey and protect our amazing hedgerows Some of them may be thousands of years old, the remnants of when the land was first cleared for agriculture. Now they are the sinews of the Welsh...