Five steps to creating a simple management plan for your churchyard
Discover what is special about your churchyard and how to manage it well for people and wildlife.
Discover what is special about your churchyard and how to manage it well for people and wildlife.
Flower-rich grasslands, once a part of every farm, are part of our culture. Most have developed alongside humans because of livestock grazing and cutting for hay. Many have archaeological and…
This is a strange, sparse habitat of grassland growing on old mining tracks and slag heaps, on river gravels and naturally exposed metal-rich soils in the mountains. Only the toughest metal-loving…
A common spider of heathland and grassland, the Nursery web spider has brown and black stripes running the length of its body. It is an active hunter, only using its silk to create a protective…
Limited in distribution, this sweetly-scented, short-cropped, springy grassland is famed for its abundance of rare and scarce species.
Typical of softly rolling pastoral landscapes, the short, aromatic turf of lowland calcareous grassland is flower-rich and humming with insects in the summer. Its long use by humans lends it an…
Sprinkled with diminutive, short-living flowers in spring and parched dry by July, this is a habitat of heathlands, coastal grasslands and ancient parkland.
These grasslands, occupying much of the UK's heavily-grazed upland landscape, are of greater cultural than wildlife interest, but remain a habitat to some scarce and declining species.
Although much maligned, and often feared, spiders are an essential part of our natural world and indicators of a healthy environment, says Norfolk Wildlife Trust Reserves Officer Robert Morgan.…
We're delighted to hear that Norfolk County Council has put the needs of nature first and withdrawn the planning application to build the Norwich Western Link.