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Due to the heavy rainfall experienced recently across Beds, Cambs and Northants please be careful when visiting our nature reserves. Make sure you are wearing appropriate footwear and stick to footpaths where possible.
Diggers move in as work starts on new wetland landscape at the Great Fen
Groundwork has begun to create a huge new area of wetland habitat at the Great Fen in Cambridgeshire. The work starts as the Great Fen…
Hundreds of trees planted to expand popular green burial site
As green burials become more popular in the UK, a wildlife focused resting place in Cambridgeshire is expanding to meet demand
Dogs off leads harming protected wildlife sites, say conservationists
Dogs off leads at protected nature reserves are disturbing nests, scaring away wintering birds and hampering the efforts of…
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