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Reserve: Scarning Fen
Despite its small size, Scarning Fen is home to a number of rare species including liverworts, mosses and several plants.Excellent for invertebrates with 29 nationally scarce species recorded,…
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News: Wildlife day at Scarning Water Meadows
Posted: Wed 15 Jun 2016
Join us on Saturday 2 July! A huge range of free wildlife activities – from guided walks to a massive bioblitz – will be taking place on Saturday 2 July as Norfolk Wildlife Trust,…
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News: Wildlife sites and rare species threatened by A47 plans
Posted: Tue 11 Mar 2014
Norfolk Wildlife Trust is concerned that proposals to improve the A47 could result in irreversible damage to sensitive wildlife sites that are located alongside the road. Two of the Trust&rsq…
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Reserve: Honeypot Wood
NWT Honeypot Wood is a delightful small reserve with a wealth of history and character.Thought to be a remnant of wild wood dating back to the retreat of the last ice age its more recent histo…
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News: Small but significant land purchase re-unites SSSI 
Posted: Thu 01 Oct 2020
Two of Norfolk’s finest wet grasslands, which sit either side of the river Wensum, are to be united, as Norfolk Wildlife Trust purchases the missing half of this Site of Special Scientif…
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Species: Devil’s-bit Scabious
A late summer perennial, with small pincushion like purple blue flowers, that grows in a wide range of moist to free draining habitats including rough grassland, heaths, woodland rides, mires …
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Species: Greater bladderwort
A rootless, free-floating and carnivorous aquatic plant of ponds, ditches and fens. It has distinctive yellow flowers, and uses the dense mat of stems, leaves and bladders it produces to float…
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News: Dereham wildlife to benefit from £107,000 biodiversity grant
Posted: Fri 03 Jul 2015
Dereham residents will be treated to beautiful displays of marsh orchids and many other wildflowers after plans to restore areas of threatened fen meadow in the town received a £107,000 …
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Species: Southern Marsh Orchid
This is probably the most widespread and commonest of the marsh orchids. Its range is not limited to just marshes and wet fens. It can tolerate much drier meadows which probably accounts for i…
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Species: Early Marsh Orchid
Early records amalgamated all species of marsh orchid. The early marsh orchid seems to have been first recorded around 1840. It is widespread throughout Britain though East Anglia is a strongh…
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Article: Restoration of a Mid-Norfolk hidden gem
Posted: Sat 30 Jun 2018
The Dereham Stream, sometimes called the Wendling Beck, meanders through a broad valley, linking wildlife friendly habitats of the open countryside with the very centre of Dereham town. One of…
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County Wildlife Site: School Common , Southrepps (1194)
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News: Celebrating two decades of rubbish help for biodiversity
Posted: Tue 19 Sep 2017
It feels counterintuitive - the waste we produce helping to restore habitats and conserve some of Norfolk’s most vulnerable species, but that is what has been happening for the past 20 y…
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