Grassland Management on the West Mendips
With breeding bird activity increasing, we’ve put away our chainsaws and brush cutters for the time being, and have instead been concentrating on infrastructure based work.
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February - prelude to spring!
Winter has battered us with storms and floods and you wonder if the rain is ever going to end! But as the daylight stretches, nature can feel the approach of spring and wildlife is getting ready…
Upland spring, flush and fen
These tiny habitats, the source of our streams and rivers, are fundamental to the well-being of whole water catchments.
The Mendip Society
Regular walks in the wider Mendip area
Mendip Hills
The Mendip Living Landscape encompasses some 30,000 ha and covers the distinctive range of predominantly limestone hills stretching between Frome and Weston-Super-Mare. The Mendip Hills are historically a key area of Somerset Wildlife Trust delivery and includes some extremely biodiverse sites, reflected in numerous designations over a relatively small area.
Mendip butterfly project a soaring success
Somerset Wildlife Trust has now successfully completed its year-long ‘Making Space for Butterflies in Mendip’ project with Aggregate Industries (AI), which worked to improve butterfly habitat and…
Mendip Hills AONB
Conserving and enhancing the Mendip Hills AONB
A remarkable spring with Trude, Finn and the six owlets
From the first hatchlings in early April to the increasingly confident young owls of May, viewers watched every milestone unfold through the live nest camera.
Habitat Management for Mendip Dormice
A funded project to help farmers and land managers to reconnect and restore habitat for one of Mendip’s most charismatic species.
Mendip Hills Farm Cluster
Learn more about how members of the Mendip Hills Farm Cluster Group work together to deliver environmental benefits.
Supporting action for a Wilder Mendip
We provide training, advice and support to communities and land managers in Mendip to take action for nature. Key to this is enabling people to share skills and work together to conserve, connect, restore and create wildlife habitats.
Woodland Management on Mendip for Dormice and Beyond
Mendip is home to a number of wonderful Tilio-Acerion woodland sites. This particular type of woodland is typically only found on shallow base-rich soils on steep rocky slopes, such as the…