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Avon Wildlife Trust and Forest of Imagination to submit a joint proposal for a Nature and Art Discovery Centre at the Entry Hill golf course in Bath
In collaboration with Forest of Imagination, Avon Wildlife Trust will submit a business proposal to BANES Council to reimagine the 10-hectare (ha) Entry Hill golf course into an intergenerational…
Dare to be wild! New review says get long-lasting feel-good factor from 30 Days Wild
The Wildlife Trusts and University of Derby evaluate the benefits of daily nature contact with 1,000 people over five years
Badgers in Avon given a reprieve after Government announce the phasing out of culling
Badger culling is set to phase out the next five years as the Government sets out a new phase of their strategy to tackle bovine TB – a disease which causes devastation to farmers and their…
Avon Wildlife Trust makes the case for urgent action to tackle the ecological emergency across the region
Avon Wildlife Trust is calling on local authorities throughout the West of England to declare an ecological emergency.
Bristol's Ecological Emergency Declaration Signals a Nature Recovery for the City
The declaration of ecological emergency made jointly today by Bristol mayor, Marvin Rees and Avon Wildlife Trust Chief Executive, Ian Barrett, signals a pioneering approach to reversing the…
Wildlife Trusts call for urgent action for insects, as new report reveals true impacts of unnoticed invertebrate apocalypse
A new report, Insect Declines and Why They Matter, commissioned by a group of Wildlife Trusts in the south west has revealed conclusively that drastic declines in insect numbers look set to have…
Sculpture Honouring Bristol’s Second World War Women Unveiled at City Nature Reserve
A memorial sculpture celebrating the courage of the women of Bristol during the Second World War, is today being unveiled at Avon Wildlife Trust’s nature reserve, Bennett’s Patch and White’s…
No Let-Up in Net Loss of UK's Nature
The UK’s wildlife continues to decline according to the State of Nature 2019 report. The latest findings show that since rigorous scientific monitoring began in the 1970s there has been a 13%…
Badger culling starting in Avon for the first time – despite vaccination showing an alternative way forward
Badgers will be culled in Avon for the first time as the government today announced new cull areas, increasing the number stretching from Cornwall to Cumbria to over 40. Avon is one of 11 new…