Spotlight on Being a Wildlife Training Workshops Trainer
Owen Mountford explains his background and role as a trainer for the wildlife training workshops programme
Owen Mountford explains his background and role as a trainer for the wildlife training workshops programme
The rare chalk grassland at Totternhoe, Beds has benefitted from restoration work thanks to a generous grant from Biffa Award
Guided walk at East Pit to look for chalk grassland flowers
Due to covid 19, we have had to think of ways to best deliver our wildlife training workshops, within the current guidelines
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…
Juliette Butler, Training Workshops Officer, talks about the launch of new online training sessions
An overview of grassland management in Northamptonshire by Pete Bray, Nene Wetlands Senior Ranger
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…
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…