Annabelle Brittle shares the joy of volunteering for a worthwhile cause; protecting and diversifying water vole habitats with a group of like-minded people in the autumn sunshine.
The water vole is under serious threat from habitat loss and predation by the American mink. Found along our waterways, it is similar-looking to the brown rat, but with a blunt nose, small ears…
I have become a detective; an investigator seeking clues; peering into burrows and carefully searching through grass and mud for one of the UK’s most elusive creatures, the water vole.
Thousands of species - including otters, kingfishers, salmon, dippers, water voles, dragonflies and a myriad of smaller creatures on which they depend - rely on safe wetland habitats; as does a…
We have been restoring bog and fen habitat across Greater Manchester as part of the Network for Nature project. With the projects coming to an end, we'd like to celebrate the project by…
As part of 30 Days Wild my grandson Jacob and I have decided we will both do something each day and Jacob writes it on his poster calendar each night before bed.
Lancashire Wildlife Trust staff and volunteers at Lunt Meadows Nature Reserve and Flood Storage Reservoir in Sefton have built nineteen small rafts to help keep an eye on one of the site’s more…
Jessica Fung, our wonderful Nature Recovery Project Officer, looks back at an intriguing summer full of discoveries and practical progress on our Wet Willow Wildlife Project.
There are several species of spider that live in our wetlands, but the water spider is the only one that spends its life under the water. In its pond habitats, it looks silvery because of the air…
