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Wildlife in Common - newts
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- by Barry Madden
As children we used to roam free across the largely unspoiled wilderness adjoining the eastern side of Norwich. There one day, by the edge of one of many natural ponds dotted across the landscape, we came upon a pair of dragons. These 10cm creatures, sporting a blaze of bright orange on their bellies and a magnificent crest along their tail…
Pensthorpe Bird and Wildlife Fair speaker schedule announced
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- Thursday 18 April, 2019
Pensthorpe Natural Park has added one of Britain’s best-known birders, Bill Oddie OBE, to its programme of guest speakers at the Pensthorpe Bird and Wildlife Fair on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 May 2019 and announced an exciting programme…
Leaving the nest
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- Tuesday 16 April, 2019 - by Mark Webster
As any bird will tell you, there are always mixed feelings when your babies leave the nest…
30 Days Wild to connect people with nature
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- Monday 15 April, 2019
Launched today, The Wildlife Trusts’ annual nature challenge 30 Days Wild encourages…
On the verge
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- Sunday 14 April, 2019 - by David North
A fine April morning and nature seems pregnant with possibilities. Along the lanes close to…
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New look team at Trust's Ecological Consultancy
Friday 05 April, 2019
Norfolk Wildlife Services welcomes a fresh but familiar face as a new look team is ready to help with ecological expertise. The consultancy provides expert advice and guidance on a whole range of topics such as protected species and planning requirements, wildlife surveys, environmental impact assessments, green infrastructure design, tree…
Badger, Ratty, Mole and Toad strike out for a wilder future
Thursday 28 March, 2019
Festival Debate will consider the future of nature in Norfolk
Friday 22 March, 2019
Big or small, ponds for all!
Tuesday 12 March, 2019
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Grass-wrack pondweed
by Kirsty Bailey
Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s second biggest nature reserve in the Norfolk Broads is a tranquil haven in the heart of the Bure and Thurne Living Landscape area and home to an unassuming plant at the centre of a restoration project now underway. NWT Upton Broad and Marshes has an impressive variety of wetland habitats from dense wet…
Wind in the Willows – a message for a Wild Future
by David North
Wildlife in Common - song thrush
by Barry Madden
The miracle of spring bird migration
by David North
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Making connections: why we need to come together to solve conservation problems
Friday 29 March, 2019 - by David North
It’s easy to think that environmental problems are simply too big and scary for individuals to make any real difference. Over the last 12 months there have been so many headlines making the news on seemingly separate environmental issues. And always couched in ways that make it seem almost impossible for us as individuals to know how…
More flapwort than nettles
Thursday 28 February, 2019 - by Jenny Jones (guest author)
Mobilising Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s historical biological records I like to be busy. Summer isn’t a problem – there’s plenty of surveying work to be done for NWT. After all of the survey records have been…
The Hickling Broad Nature Reserve
Tuesday 26 February, 2019 - by Barry Madden
Book review: The Hickling Broad Nature Reserve by Martin GeorgeHickling Broad and the adjacent waterways at Horsey and Martham have long been known as one of the country’s most prolific areas for wildlife. Stunning open vistas…
Six months with the Norfolk Wildlife Trust
Tuesday 12 February, 2019 - by Steve Cox
I have been in the unusual and lucky position of being paid by my employer to volunteer for the Norfolk Wildlife Trust. John Lewis sponsored me to work one day a week for six months under its Golden Jubilee Scheme which was set up in April…
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