Wildlife Action - Issue 1
Read issue 1 of our members' magazine, then called Wildlife Action, as part of our celebrations of issue 100, published in November 2026
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How to identify swifts, swallows, sand martins and house martins
Learn how to identify swifts, swallows and martins. These birds are all summer visitors to the UK. Here's how you can find the difference between a swift and a swallow or work out what kind of martin you could have spotted!
Sand martin
The tiny, brown-and-white sand martin is a common summer visitor to the UK, nesting in colonies on rivers, lakes and flooded gravel pits. It returns to Africa in winter.
A spring awakening for wildlife on our reserves
Our Trust promoter Harry Hog is back out and about at some of our best reserves for spring. Find out what to look out for when you visit
Development, planning and growth pressures on wildlife - where we stand
Brian Eversham, Chief Exec of the Wildlife Trust BCN, outlines our stance on the Ox-Cam Arc, and sets out the principles by which this, and any other development, should abide if we are to solve…
Marine wildlife and me
Donal Griffin, marine conservation officer for The Wildlife Trusts, shares the experiences that inspired his love for the sea.
Where the WILD things are
A WILDside project update from the Northamptonshire Biodiversity Records Centre
Another way to see our reserves
Drone technology gives you the chance to see our nature reserves from a whole new angle
A dawn chorus where the nightingales sing again
Brian Eversham, chief executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire, shares his personal journey of a songbird resurgence.
Appeal as sand martin nests destroyed by vandals
An artificial sand martin bank and two nests were destroyed after vandals struck at the Nene Wetlands nature reserve in Northamptonshire.
Wildlife
Explore the wildlife we have in our three counties
People's Walk for Wildlife
A report from the People's Walk for Wildlife arranged by Chris Packham where 10,000 people marched on Westminster to demand a Wilder Britain.