Habitats
Find out more about the vast range of habitats to be found in our three counties
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Orchard project volunteers needed
Could you help Orchards East, an exciting new Heritage Lottery funded project across the Eastern region, to survey existing orchards?
For the love of orchards
Orchards East has launched in Bedfordshire - the core aim is to preserve ancient fruit trees
Mapping habitats on our nature reserves
Siân Williams, Senior Monitoring and Research Officer, reports on creating detailed digital maps of the habitats on our nature reserves, and how these maps are being used to tell us more not just…
Orchards East - Get Involved
Orchards East is an exciting environmental and cultural project covering six counties in the east of England - Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.
Managing our Habitats (may not need this sub-page)
Find out more about how we work to protect habitats in our three counties
Reprofiling Habitats for Waders in the Nene Valley
Nene Valley Reserves Officer, Laurence, Kidd details reprofiling work at Nene Wetlands' Dragonfly Lake and at Summer Leys- plus positive news from recent Wetland Bird Surveys
Rocky habitat
Rocky habitats are some of the most natural and untouched places in the UK. Often high up in the hills and hard to reach, they are havens for some of our rarest wildlife.
Creating new wetland habitats in the Nene Valley
Farming for the Future project coordinator Helena Darragh has been preparing for the arrival of the only rotary ditcher in the UK for a while...
New habitat in the Nene Valley
The country's only rotary ditcher machine has been hard at work in the Nene Valley creating a swathe of ditches and channels - new habitats for breeding and overwintering wading birds
Habitat and infrastructure improvements at Totternhoe
Habitat improvements at Totternhoe, Bedfordshire, have been made possible thanks to funding via Grantscape
Pochard
The once-common pochard is now under threat because its populations are declining rapidly. The UK is an important winter destination for the pochard, with 48,000 birds visiting our wetlands and…