Buff tailed bumblebee. Image by: Chris Gomersal/l2020VISION.
The Wildlife Trusts and NWT in particular, are brilliant at communicating with the wider world. Getting the message across about wildlife and the need for support is critical and they do it so…
As we aim to set up a youth board this year, to advise and get involved in our conservation and engagement delivery and perhaps elect a young person to Council, I am reminded that we never stop…
I made a connection to Northumberland Wildlife Trust quite a few years before we returned north to live. A mutual friend and now our President, Conrad Dickinson, had told our CEO, Mike Pratt, that…
Northumberland Wildlife Trust is delighted to welcome Emily Marshall to the Trust as Northumberland's regional officer for the new Naturally Native project. Hear more from Emily below on her…
There’s a fundamental and well known principle in geology; it goes like this: the present is the key to the past. Aka Uniformitarianism. What it means is that the processes that are happening…
I’m guessing that when we think of nature and wildlife, pretty well all of us think countryside? Yet if we’ve learned anything in lockdown, it’s that nature and the benefits it brings, are all…
There are lots of places in the world that have a close association with rocks, many are even named after them. Nantwich and other -wich’s in Cheshire are named after salt and brine springs;…
In September, I waved a teary goodbye to Norfolk, where I had spent the last four years at university, and trekked up to Morpeth, which was to be my new home. Originally coming from Brighton, and…
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…
A couple of blogs ago we were in Haltwhistle Burn. It’s an SNCI - a Site of Nature Conservation Interest. SNCI’s are one of many designations in England and Wales created to conserve and manage…