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Festival of Wildlife 2018
Over 1,200 people came together on Saturday 27th July to celebrate the wildlife of Hertfordshire and Middlesex.
Local Wildlife Sites and the planning system explained
Local Wildlife Sites (LWS) are havens for wild species. In this blog, we explain how they are protected.
Amazing Nature Identification Apps
Have you found yourself noticing nature more since being in lockdown? What birds are singing in the dawn chorus? Has a butterfly visited your garden you’ve not seen before? Is it a toad or a…
New Partnership with local Glamping Site
A new partnership with local Glamping site Home Farm Glamping will help protect wildlife in Hertfordshire and Middlesex and bring glampers closer to wildlife.
Council Plans Threaten Broadwater Lake – a Nationally Important and Protected Site for Wildlife
Hillingdon Council is planning to build a new Watersports Facility and Activity Centre on Broadwater Lake, a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). This would be catastrophic for wildlife and…
The Wildlife Trusts explore legal challenge to Government decision to allow emergency use of neonicotinoid
Emergency authorisation was refused in 2018 – what’s changed?
Membership renewal
Field cow-wheat
Once widespread, this attractive plant has declined as a result of modern agricultural practices and is now only found in four sites in South East England.
Greater water parsnip
Large scale drainage in the UK has seen a massive reduction in the range of this sensitive aquatic plant which now only occurs in around 50 sites in England.
Bladder campion
Bladder campion is so-called for the bladder-like bulge that sites just behind the five-petalled flower - this is actually the fused sepals. Look for it on grasslands, farmland and along hedgerows…
Heath fritillary
The rare heath fritillary was on the brink of extinction in the 1970s, but conservation action turned its fortunes around. It is still confined to a small number of sites in the south of England,…