It’s been over 10 years since the Luton-Dunstable Guided busway was built. In that time Wildlife Trust BCN staff and volunteers have been monitoring the slow worm populations that were moved from…

It’s been just over a year since we took over Strawberry Hill, Beds, and we’ve not been idle. We’ve spent much of this first year focusing on surveying the site to learn more about the species…

An update on how how we've been safely conducting our surveys during the second survey season of the pandemic...

Detecting who has been visiting from the signs they leave behind

As lockdown has eased find out how we've managed to get some of our survey work back up and running whilst staying safe....

Usually at this time of year we’d be contacting all our Ecology Group volunteers with details of what surveys are running this year that you can get involved with. Sadly the current Covid-19…

Gwen Hitchcock needs your help with tracking dormouse footprints

Gwen Hitchcock, Monitoring and Research Officer, reports on the results from the footprint tunnel project

This summer we will be using a new, non-invasive technique - footprint tunnels - to look for dormice in a Northamptonshire woodland. Local volunteers will be needed on the ground but volunteers…

Unlike most other species bats require some technical kit to successfully determine which bats are using our nature reserves