Restoring Ratty staff and volunteers visited our water vole contractors Derek Gow Consultancy in Devon to see our water voles and learn more about the breeding and release process.

The project team have been working out the best areas for the first years release of water voles. Releases will take place between May and August and will take place along the Kielder and Scaup…

Now that the first years water voles from the North Pennines and the Trossachs are safely down in Devon the team are working hard to get to prepare everything that is needed to ensure that…

Our volunteers have been helping monitor the Kielder area for mink as well as helping Red Squirrels United to survey the area for squirrels. If that wasn't enough they been helping out Derek…

The Restoring Ratty project will reintroduce water voles back into the Kielder area where they have been absent for 30 years. The project will last 5 years and we will keep you updated on progress…

Health and wellbeing in nature

Focusing on Nature

It’s Easter, a time to get in touch with spring and to notice the awakening of the countryside after a long wet slow emergence from winter.

On Sunday, in the late afternoon, I went for a walk to clear my head of all things Christmas and had an instant wildlife result!

Isn’t wildlife wonderfully surprising?