Making Space for Butterflies
Find out more about the Making Space for Butterflies project, kindly supported by Aggregate Industries.
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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…
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 Hills AONB
Conserving and enhancing the Mendip Hills AONB
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…
How to attract butterflies to your garden
Provide food for caterpillars and choose nectar-rich plants for butterflies and you’ll have a colourful, fluttering display in your garden for many months.
Mendip woodlands and wildflowers get a funding boost
Somerset Wildlife Trust are excited to announce a new project with Aggregate Industries (AI), working to create, enhance and restore species-rich grasslands and woodlands in the Mendip area.
Small white
The small white is a common garden visitor. It is smaller than the similar large white, and has less black on its wingtips.