Swiss Garden Woodland
Local Wildlife Sites, like Swiss Garden Woodland, provide vital stepping stones to build our Living Landscapes.
Local Wildlife Sites, like Swiss Garden Woodland, provide vital stepping stones to build our Living Landscapes.
Few of us can contemplate having a wood in our back gardens, but just a few metres is enough to establish this mini-habitat!
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…
Exceptionally prolonged wet conditions from autumn through to early spring meant that the Trust took difficult decisions to keep various Cambridgeshire woodlands closed to help preserve the…
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…
A plain-looking warbler, the garden warbler is a summer visitor to the UK. It is a shy bird and is most likely to be heard, rather than seen, in woodland and scrub habitats.
Cambridgeshire Senior Reserves Manager Matt Hamilton explains why some of our ancient woodlands will face closure between now and next spring - and suggests discovering alternative habitats
Unsurprisingly, the garden bumblebee can be found in the garden, buzzing around flowers like foxgloves, cowslips and red clover. It is quite a large, scruffy-looking bee, with a white tail. It…
Reserves officer David Price is underway with a wildlife garden, planning a 'long banquet of flowers' from early-flowering plants to those lasting until November, all favoured by the…
A recent trial looking to reprofile woodland rides is proving effective, helping water drain away rather than puddling the middle of paths