Blog: Young voices

Hobby (credit: Jon Bunting)

A hand holding a bright and colourful booklet, opened up to a page with a pink and purple background and featuring plant and butterfly drawings.

Imagining a Wilder Norwich with Illustration students

Norfolk Wildlife Trust has been working to celebrate, and connect people to, the incredible wildlife that calls Norwich its home, with urban wilding a major focus for us. This has led to an…

A male and female silver-washed fritillary butterfly sit on a green leaf together. One has orange wings and the other has silver wings, with both butterflies holding their wings up as they mate.

From purple emperors to bush-crickets: Foxley Wood has it all

Our young blogger, Oscar, shares his love of Foxley Wood through the seasons, and reveals all about his first encounter with a purple emperor.

Four people sitting in a row on chairs on a stage at an interview panel event. The person on the far right, a teenage boy, is speaking into a microphone.

My point of view - Chris Packham's centenary visit to Norfolk

Our young blogger Oscar tells all about his exciting experience interviewing Chris Packham at Norfolk Wildlife Trust's centenary event.

A lapwing flying. It has thick rounded wings with white tips, a white head, short bill and spikey quiff on its head.

Lapwings – acrobats of the Norfolk skies

Our young blogger, Oscar, casts a spotlight on lapwings.

A man is watching blue-tits on a bird feeder from his window with binoculars

Joyful garden birds

Our young blogger, Oscar, shares some of his favourite garden birds and how you can care for them in your own green spaces.

Pink-footed geese are silhouetted against an orange sky

Festive wildlife joy

Our young blogger, Oscar, encourages us to wrap up warm and venture outside this festive season to enjoy our winter wildlife.

A teenage girl wearing a beige cap, brown glasses and a black and white striped crop top is smiling at the camera.

Norfolk’s first youth-led nature reserve

Jade tells us more about being part of our Youth Forum and starting to manage Norfolk’s first youth-led nature reserve, Sloughbottom Meadows next to NWT Sweet Briar Marshes.