Caught on film

Caught on film

Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s Biodiversity Boost Project has produced two short films about the project for nature lovers to watch at their leisure.
Goat with long curved horns standing in tall grass near a lake, wearing a tracking device around its neck, with other goats grazing in the background.

Grazing goat at Druridge © Helen Walsh

The £750,000 Biodiversity Boost Project was made possible by a grant from the Species Survival Fund, in partnership with Defra and the National Lottery Heritage Fund, to increase and enhance habitats across the wildlife charity’s Hauxley, East Chevington and West Chevington reserves over the last 18 months.

Both films, produced by Brian Cosgrove and his team from Collingwood Arts and Media College in Morpeth and Helen Walsh, Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s Biodiversity Boost Officer, are available below.

More films about the project are on the Trust’s Biodiversity Boost webpage.

The first film offers an overview of the West Chevington reserve - one of the wildlife charity’s most ambitious lowland recovery sites in the north of England that forms an integral part of the Trust’s fight against climate change. The former opencast mine site consists of conifers, mixed woodland, grassland, and arable land.

Grazing is the focus of the second film which give gives a potted history of grazing across the natural Druridge Bay landscape before coming right up to date with details of several of the wildlife charity’s Flexigraze conservation projects.

From adorable footage of goats grazing on the East Chevington reserve to improve the landscape for rare flowers including lesser butterfly orchids, to an interview with Stephen Comber, Flexigraze manager and footage of Exmoor ponies and highland cows helping to create a wildflower meadow at Hauxley nature reserve, the films are well worth a watch.

Helen Walsh, Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s Biodiversity Boost Officer says:

“The project team worked with Collingwood Arts and Media College to produce a series of short films for the Biodiversity Boost project.

“Looking back through all the footage we’ve collected over the last 20 months we can really appreciate the changes that have been made and the work that has gone into delivering this project. We hope that people take some time to enjoy our short little films.”