Ecologist
First Ecology is actively hiring an ecologist to join our team, contributing to our mission of creating a Wilder Somerset!
First Ecology is actively hiring an ecologist to join our team, contributing to our mission of creating a Wilder Somerset!
First Ecology is looking for a senior ecologist to join our team, contributing to our mission of creating a Wilder Somerset!
Always fascinated by wildlife, Sophie has pursued a career in nature conservation through formal education and traineeships.
She now works as an ecologist, working to conserve Herefordshire’…
The fluffy, white heads of common cotton-grass dot our brown, boggy moors and heaths as if a giant bag of cotton wool balls has been thrown across the landscape!
In May, our hedgerows burst into life as common hawthorn erupts with creamy-white blossom, colouring the landscape and giving this thorny shrub its other name of 'May-tree'.
Our most familiar fern, bracken can be found growing in dense stands on hillsides, moorland, heathland and in woodlands. It is very large and dies back in winter, turning the landscape orangey-…
Windy, open moors covered in bright yellow, spiky common gorse bushes and purple heathers are synonymous with what we call 'wild' landscapes, but it can be seen in many habitats, from…
Read our ecologist Anne's quick and easy tips to ID thrushes you might see over the winter months!