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Naturally Native - reconnecting landscapes to create a Nature Recovery Network
In last month’s blog we wrote about the power of slowing down and observing nature in your local green space, and the benefit that this can have on your emotional connection with the world around…

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people
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…

My Nature
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…

Lies, damned lies and then there’s data
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…
Welcome to Emily Marshall, NWT's Naturally Native Project Officer
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…

What goes around comes around
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…

When worlds collide
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…

Old King Cole
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;…

2020, not glum for everyone: a new start for Catch My Drift’s trainee
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…

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…