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Incredible Insects
Insects are everywhere, often overlooked, but playing vital roles in almost every ecosystem. Meet some of the miniature miracle-workers that help keep our world running.
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…
Wildlife Trusts call for urgent action for insects, as new report reveals true impacts of unnoticed invertebrate apocalypse
A new report, Insect Declines and Why They Matter, commissioned by a group of Wildlife Trusts in the south west has revealed conclusively that drastic declines in insect numbers look set to have…
What I learnt from Avon Wildlife Trust’s Action for Insects course led by ecologist Matt Collis
From up here, without wings or three sets of legs, insects can seem pretty irrelevant. It’s understandable that we’ve grown a distrust for them: they have a reputation for eating holes in our…
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Avon Wildlife Trust looking to assist with community-led wildlife projects in the Somer Valley!
Avon Wildlife Trust’s Nextdoor Nature project is now working in the Somer Valley and we are inviting applications for people to tell us their community-led wildlife project ideas.
National Insect Week!
Every year over the last full week of June, the Royal Society of Entomology organise National Insect Week, an event to celebrate insects and all the important things they do for us and the planet…
Appreciating nature’s amazing aerial acrobat – the swift!
There are some bird calls that I believe most people would recognise. The twit-too of calling tawny owls, the iconic calling cuckoo (of clock fame) and perhaps the drumming of a woodpecker. But I…
Online Courses at Avon Wildlife Trust
Whether you are a beginner seeking to gain knowledge into wildlife or a keen enthusiast hungry for more, Avon Wildlife Trust offers a range of online courses tailored to suit your interest in the…
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Gallop into 2022 with Avon Wildlife Trust
Take inspiration from Folly Farm's resident Exmoor ponies, Wensleydale, Halloumi, Stilton and Mozzarella, and gallop into 2022 with Avon Wildlife Trust. There are so many ways you can make a…