Rocky habitat
Rocky habitats are some of the most natural and untouched places in the UK. Often high up in the hills and hard to reach, they are havens for some of our rarest wildlife.
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North Somerset Levels and Moors Restoration Project
Our work on the North Somerset Levels and Moors is helping to restore a rare and valuable wetland habitat near to the Severn Estuary. Semi-aquatic plants on the moorland, wildflower meadows on the ridges and ancient woodlands all make up this beautiful and special landscape, and a range of birds, plants and invertebrates all depend on this landscape to thrive. We are working with partners Natural England, the Environment Agency, the Internal Drainage Board and North Somerset Council as well as our funders, Wessex Water, to improve this unique landscape for wildlife.
Portishead Local Group - My North Somerset Levels Story
An illustrated talk by Colin Higgins (Higgy) with an in depth look at the history of the levels from the Mendip Hills to the Bristol Chanel.
Where there’s water there’s wildlife: create your pond habitat and watch wildlife return
Within just two weeks of adding a pond to your garden you may see birds taking a bath, hedgehogs stopping for a drink, frogs and toads and their unsual looking spawn and dragonflies searching for…
Lovely Ladybirds
A closer look at one of the UK’s most popular beetles.
Habitat improvements completed at Hellenge Hill nature reserve thanks to community grants and volunteers
Conservation grazing is now able to take place at the site, thanks to improvements made possible by community grants and the efforts of our volunteers.
Your garden's missing link - creating linear habitats
Across the region, more gardeners are finding ways to bring their boundaries to life, whether that’s softening a fence line with native wildflowers, climbers and wild edges or creating living,…
Growth in more ways than one: my experience of Avon Wildlife Trust’s Grow Leader placement
If you visited Avon Wildlife Trust’s six-acre site, Feed Bristol, and stayed for just an hour, you may interpret it as a huge urban food growing site. You wouldn’t be completely wrong. I did the…
Walking for Wildlife - a Journey through Avon
An ecologist by profession, I have lived in Bristol since the 1980s. The Avon Wildlife Trust gave me my very first job in nature conservation, and in 2009 I returned to the Trust as a regular…
Team Wilder Story Paddle Avon
Paddle Avon's Environmental Officee shared his experience, knowledge and observations on his time on the river near to Bath, how he is taking action for nature on this beautiful and important freshwater habitat for his community and the wildlife. He shares his connection to nature along the river and how citizen science is providing data to help protect the river.
Habitats
Discover more about the UK's amazing natural habitats and the wildlife that live there. From peat bogs and caves, to woodlands and meadows!
Saving Avon’s Badgers
If you’re out for a summer’s evening walk or drive, you may be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a black and white creature scurrying across a lane or skirting the edge of a woodland, its stocky…