Tony West
In the spirit of all things active and autumnal, we asked staff what their favourite reserves were for a peaceful walk.
As we drift into autumn so many wildlife spectacles await us, none more so than amazing birds of prey soaring above our nature reserves in Lancashire, Manchester & North Merseyside.
The harvest mouse is tiny - an adult can weigh as little as a 2p piece! It prefers habitats with long grass, but you are most likely to spot its round, woven-grass nests.
Nature reserves are fragile places. We need people to treat them with care and consideration to protect the wildlife that lives there.
North West nature reserves have played their part in preventing catastrophic flooding of homes as well as providing habitats for wildlife.
As part of our exciting wetter farming trials, we are growing a commercial crop of bulrushes on purposefully re-wetted agricultural peat fields. But one question we get asked again and again is…
The world leaders have met – well, some of them – and there is 'cautious optimism' that COP26 will have been a turning point in the future of our planet.
