Wildlife News 

Somerset Wildlife Trust has joined forces with wildlife charities across the south west to  condemn Treasury plans to weaken wildlife legislation. 

In a strongly worded letter to regional newspapers, the Chief Officers of all the West Country's Wildlife Trusts, Friends of the Earth and the RSPB express their deep dismay at the plans revealed in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement.

As winter approaches, the shorter days are giving rise to an annual peak in deer vehicle collisions.  Rush hour traffic is coinciding with dawn and dusk which are the hours that deer tend to be most active.

Somerset Wildlife Trust is celebrating the countryside it has been working hard to protect for almost 50 years with its 2012 calendar of local landscapes. Read the main article and follow the link to our shop, for calendars, cards, wildlife adoptions and gift memberships.

Photograph © Ben Simmonds

The Royal Horticultural Society and The Wildlife Trusts are asking bonfire night celebrators to look out for toads and frogs before they light their fires.

A Gift to Somerset’s Wildlife. Somerset Wildlife Trust has launched a campaign to highlight how leaving a Gift in Your Will can help protect local wildlife and preserve wild places.

Photographer Don McCullin, CBE, is holding a landscape exhibition in support of Somerset Wildlife Trust’s Selwood Living Landscape Programme, at At The Chapel, Bruton, September 26 to November 27.

Dozens of volunteers came down to the beaches of Somerset at the weekend for a series of events to uncover its hidden wildlife and discover the extent of the marine litter problem.

Somerset Wildlife Trust is launching its 2011 photo competition to showcase the diversity of wildlife and wild places in the county.

Fruit Trees for All , a joint project of Transition Glastonbury, Transition Wells and Wedmore Green Group, hopes to make it cheap and easy to get high quality fruit trees.

People living near the Somerset coast are being urged to help protect marine wildlife and local beaches by taking part in the Beachwatch Big Weekend, which takes place September 17 and 18. There are also guided walks to follow the beach cleaning at Berrow and Kilve.

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