Wildlife News 

Somerset softies are showing they care for nature by raising awareness of one of the county’s most precious species with Somerset Wildlife Trust’s free cuddly dormouse e-Valentine’s card.

Somerset Wildlife Trust and Bristol Zoo are teaming-up with local school children to re-introduce rare West Country plant species to wetland nature reserves in Somerset.

Somerset Wildlife Trust has today learned that west Somerset has been identified as one of the two badger cull pilot areas to be trialled later this year.

The Wildlife Trusts today express disappointment as the first phase of High Speed 2 (HS2) is given the go-ahead by the Transport Secretary.  Serious damage to wildlife and habitats is expected as a result of the route’s construction.
 

A number of members have contacted the Trust in the last few days expressing concern about the County Councils proposed sale of over 2,000 acres of nature reserves and woodland on the Quantocks.

We're amongst the south west wildlife charities that have set out a wish list of ten things the Government could do to give the region’s wildlife a festive boost and support its aspirations to be the "greenest Government ever".

We have launched an urgent new year appeal to raise £20,000 and give a threatened butterfly a new beginning in 2012.

The Wildlife Trusts have expressed disappointment and regret in response to the Government’s decision to press ahead with a cull of badgers in pilot areas in England.

Here is the follow-up to the survey in which more than 60 volunteers took part on the Blackdown Hills on the 29th of July 2011 to help protect some of the county’s most precious bats.

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.

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