Happy new year… happy new Wildwood
Staff working on the Kielderhead Wildwood project at Scaup Burn returned to work this week to the welcome news that the project had received £171 via seven donations over the Christmas holidays.…
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Returning to Kielder Wildwood
For the first time in three years there was no planting activity on the Kielderhead Wildwood site through April, May and June. This is the longest I have been away from site in that time too. As I…
Wildwood project takes to the skies
Work on the Kielder Wildwood project, which aims to plant 35,000 trees and create a native upland woodland on the Scaup Burn, is continuing despite ongoing social distancing regulations.
Tenth year of Kielder ospreys brings new nest!
The tenth year of the Kielder Osprey Partnership has given the partners a brilliant surprise late in the season - staff from the Forestry Commission recently discovered a fifth nest in Kielder…
Wildwood
Imagine standing in one of the wildest landscapes in England, looking up the valley and seeing Scots pine and native woodland stretching into the distance along a meandering burn. Black grouse forage below and golden eagles soar above.
Kielder project supported by 250-miles of wildness
Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s Kielderhead Wildwood project is delighted to have received a £500 cash boost from nland250.com via its sales of an all-new 250-mile adventure route map and…
Cash boost for dynamic new project
Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s dynamic new people engagement project has received support from National Lottery players via an £85,000 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund’s Resilient…
A year of progress for Wild Kielder
Here is update from one the largest Wilder Northumberland Network Members, Wild Kielder! Read on to discover what they have been up to in the last year!
Kielderhead Wildwood Helilifting
2020 has been a quiet year on the Wildwood site. At least in terms of us humans. Buzzards have continued to cry overhead; the barking of roe deer has still been heard and in general nature has…
New year, new homes
Tawny owls will now have somewhere to call home thanks to wildlife charity Northumberland Wildlife Trust and pupils from Kingston Park Primary School in Newcastle.
Exciting osprey news from Kielder
Following a slow start to the Kielder Water & Forest Park osprey season, hampered by the Beast from the East, the breeding season is well underway with three eggs in each of the four nests.…
Wildness reseeded at Kielderhead Wildwood
After five and half years, 30,000 trees planted, thousands of river crossings and Covid, Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s Kielderhead Wildwood Project has come to an end.