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What is a 'Plantation Woodland'?
Woodlands are fantastic places. A woodland wander in early spring is great for the mind, body and spirit. Fresh air fills your lungs, the smell of wild garlic fills your nostrils and bird song…
Woodland
Our woodlands are a key tool in the box when addressing climate change for their carbon storage potential, but are less well known for their potential to limit flooding events, with wet woodlands…
Wet woodland
Wet woodlands in the UK can be wild, secretive places. Tangles of trailing creepers, tussocky sedges and lush tall-herbs conceal swampy pools and partially submerged fallen willow trunks, likely…
Our wonderful wildlife is plummeting – but there’s hope for nature’s recovery
Snuffling, crinkly-eyed hedgehogs; long-eared, darting hares; softly cooing turtle doves and endearing water voles are just some of the wonderful wild animals now at serious risk of disappearing…
Wildly romantic: the weird and wonderful courtship rituals of wildlife
It’s Valentine’s Day and it’s not just us who might be looking to get a date. As the winter months will soon be ending, much of the animal kingdom will be wanting to attract a mate. Here’s what to…
Dundridge Woodland
The woodland drummers
Meet the dawn chorus’s percussion section…
Team Wilder school wildlife garden Woodlands Academy, BS14
Woodland Drummers - Meet the dawn chorus’s percussion section…
Wander through a woodland in late winter or early spring and you’re likely to hear bursts of rapid, resonant tapping echoing through the trees. This staccato sound is the work of a woodpecker on a…
How to make a woodland edge garden for wildlife
Few of us can contemplate having a wood in our back gardens, but just a few metres is enough to establish this mini-habitat!
What a wonderfully wild year we’ve had!
For my last blog of 2022, it only felt fitting that I take a look back at the past year and reflect on everything we’ve achieved together for wildlife.