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My vocation
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’…
Nature's undertakers
Discover the brilliance of burying beetles with Dr Ellie Bladon, an evolutionary ecologist based in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.
Brush up on your thrushes!
Read our ecologist Anne's quick and easy tips to ID thrushes you might see over the winter months!
Fascinating flying ants
Sara Booth-Card, ecologist, peatlands and Action For Insects campaigner at The Wildlife Trusts, looks out for the telltale signs of flying ant days and shares her love for the underground world of…
Willow emerald damselfly
A recent colonist to South East England, the metallic-green Willow emerald damselfly spends much of its time in the willow and alder trees that overhang ponds, lakes and canals.
My rock gig
Peter is fanning the flames of his love for geology, as he burns the bramble they have cleared to reveal rock formations on Portway Hill. He is a geologist, with the Black Country Geological…
Gudgeon
The gudgeon is a bottom-dwelling fish, similar to the stone loach, but with only two whisker-like barbels near its mouth. These sensory organs help it to find its prey in the sand and gravel of…
Quarrying and Mineral Extraction
Somerset Wildlife Trust individually, and collectively part of the national Wildlife Trust movement, have a long history of positive engagement with the quarrying sector. Indeed some of our best nature reserves are exhausted quarry workings. We recognise that quarrying for non-energy mineral/aggregate extraction can be extremely damaging to the natural environment, but with the right location, planning, design and implementation, this can be avoided and a net benefit for nature can be achieved. Therefore we engage with the sector to encourage best practice, recognise good examples of where sites through their operation and restoration contribute to nature’s recovery and to challenge the sector to go further.
Wilder Sensing Bioacoustic Monitoring Update
Deployed on the 2nd of November 2022, our audio sensors have been hard at work recording bird song at Honeygar almost continuously for 7 months.
For peat's sake and our health, we need a better horticulture strategy
The UK fruit and vegetable sector is in trouble. It should be supported and expanded so we can all consume fresher produce and growers can invest in wildlife-friendly production. Our new report…
My Early Days
I was appointed to the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust on 20th July 2020, as Head of Nature Recovery South, after being interviewed on two Zoom meetings, a very odd experience in these strange…