Join Team Wilder for Somerset Wildlife Trust’s Abseil for Wildlife! We’re partnering with Aardvark Endeavours to put on this challenge at Uphill Quarry near Weston-super-Mare. This event is expected to fill up quickly, so take a deep breath and secure your spot today!
Taunton Deane Area Group covers the district council areas of Taunton Deane - including Wellington, Wiveliscombe and Milverton. As part of Somerset Wildlife Trust, the group aims to promote and support wildlife issues in the widest sense through local wildlife walks, talks and events featuring conservation issues from climate change to food production, and biodiversity on land and in the ocean.
Somerset has some of the most spectacular and internationally-recognised habitats and wildlife in the country. We have beautiful and rare creatures like the Large Blue butterfly and the Eurasian bittern, important populations of Greater horseshoe bats and other incredible species such as Great white egrets, Red deer, Round-leaved sundew and magical murmurating Starlings.
Taunton is our county-town and is a town that still retains a rural, easy-going charm, lying in a natural valley between the Quantock, Blackdown and Brendon Hills. The town has retained a diverse array of wildlife despite continued growth, and although habitat connectivity throughout and around the town is quite limited, sites within Taunton still count rarer species like kingfisher, barn owls, dormice, water voles, otters, and bats amongst the wildlife contingent.
The aim of the Bat Watch Taunton is to enthuse everyone about wildlife mapping and the fascinating world of bats, and to monitor changes in both the variety of bat species and the number of bats, that we have across Somerset.
With an estimated 124,500 gardens in Somerset, covering 19 square kilometres of the county, these spaces have huge potential for nature. If we all gave a little bit more space for wildlife within our gardens, just image how much habitat we would create overall for nature. Gardens can also help us buffer the impacts of surface flooding, pollution run off, create cooler climates around our homes and are fantastic for our health and well being!
We're on a mission to help everyone in Somerset who looks after a garden to give more space to wildlife, here you'll find tips and downloads and ways to connect with others.