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Woodland regeneration in North Somerset
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Folly Farm
A peaceful unspoilt landscape, with rare wildflower meadows and clear views across the Mendip Hills.
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…
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…
An update from our four-legged conservation assistants at Folly Farm
Just before Christmas last year we introduced four Exmoor ponies to our Folly Farm nature reserve in the Chew Valley. The ponies came from the Moorland Mousie Trust, a charity based down on Exmoor…
Browne's Folly
Commanding views towards Bath with ancient woodland and flower-rich grasslands where rare orchids grow.
Wood warbler
Look for the wood warbler singing from the canopy of oak woodlands in the north and west of the UK. Green above, it has a distinctive, bright yellow throat and eyestripe.
Dundridge Woodland
A wooded valley that connects Dundridge Park and Conham Vale in the east of Bristol, this is the perfect start to a longer walk along the river. Start by exploring the steeply sided slopes, where bluebells emerge in spring and old trees provide homes to all sorts of birds, bats and badgers. At the bottom of the valley a pond has been created by the local volunteer group, now home to frogs, damselflies and a host of other aquatic invertebrates.
The woodland drummers
Meet the dawn chorus’s percussion section…
Team Wilder school wildlife garden Woodlands Academy, BS14
Wildlife gardening on school grounds is a bloomin' great way to help nature near you thrive. This year we are celebrating the amazing gardens across our region, at every scale, as part of the Natural History Consortium and Community Pollinator Fund from the West of England Combined Authority.
Woodland homes for wildlife
Poor, fragmented habitat and climate change are adding pressure on our woodland specialists. To create a landscape that can stand up to the challenges of the climate crisis, we need to provide…