Making Space for Butterflies
Find out more about the Making Space for Butterflies project, kindly supported by Aggregate Industries.
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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.
My outer space
By filming Kimmeridge Bay's underwater wildlife, Andy's on a mission to open our eyes to the magic and diversity that lies hidden just below the surface. He's proud to show how…
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.
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…
Birds, bees, and butterflies suffer as Brexit farming promises broken today
Rescue rivers, wildlife and climate faster say three largest nature charities
News & publications
Read our exciting news and publications about Somerset Wildlife Trust and our amazing wildlife.
Marine
There's another world waiting beneath the waves. Seals weave in and out of sunlit kelp forests, cuttlefish flash all the colours of the rainbow, starfish graze along the muddy seabed and…
Somerset communities encouraged to make space for nature in their local churchyards and burial grounds
Somerset Wildlife Trust and the Diocese of Bath and Wells invite more communities to join in with the ‘Wilder Churches’ initiative and take action for nature through a special online workshop,…
Gearing up for National Marine Week
This year for National Marine Week, we're highlighting six intertidal species you might spot on a visit to the Somerset Coast this summer.
How to do a butterfly transect - young people's workshop
Learn how to carry out a butterfly transect at Chancellor's Farm. This event is for 16 - 30 year olds
Waking up to Water Quality
It won't have escaped your notice that the diminishing quality of our waters - both around our coastline and inland has been hitting news headlines recently. From water companies being fined for discharging raw sewage, the changing status of a SSSI, to last week's news that the government would be doubling its funding to support farmers to reduce water and air pollution from their land. It's been too long coming, but are we now finally waking up to the water quality problem?