During the October half term, the Avon Wildlife Trust Our Bright Future team and a group of young voluntary conservationists visited Aardman studios for a grand day out! These budding…

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…

I have a lot of respect for people who strive to turn their interests into a career. This left me with a paradoxical feeling that whilst my own interests were in ecology and the environment, my…

Around 60% of people will make at least one New Year’s Resolution. The top resolutions are the classics: lose weight; get fit; spend less - and on gloomy January evenings, gyms, swimming pools and…

Winter can often feel an empty time for the ravenous wildlife watcher. But spending time on the Severn Estuary watching the many winter visitors like plover, redshanks, lapwings and others is a…

The air is icy, the soil is hard, and the sun is pale and low in the sky. Much of nature has tucked itself away for the winter but here's how to notice and enjoy the beauty of winter wildlife…

Debbie volunteers for our My Wild Child and Wildlife Watch projects in Bristol, because it provides her with an opportunity to extend her skills and knowledge of delivering learning through nature…

This week we’ve welcomed four Exmoor Ponies to our Folly Farm nature reserve in the Chew Valley to start work as our conservation assistants! This sturdy native breed is excellent for conservation…

Spending time in nature from a young age can positively influence children as they grow older. Our My Wild Child sessions offer families with toddlers in Bristol the opportunity to connect with…

“Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we are going to save environmentalism and the environment, we must…