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Mendip butterfly project a soaring success
Somerset Wildlife Trust has now successfully completed its year-long ‘Making Space for Butterflies in Mendip’ project with Aggregate Industries (AI), which worked to improve butterfly habitat and…
Practical Conservation Work Groups
The practical conservation work groups carry out essential habitat management tasks for the benefit of local wildlife. Tasks are usually dependent on the season, but most include coppicing, scrub clearance and fencing or walling in the winter and grassland management, some surveying and path maintenance during spring and summer.
Greater butterfly-orchid
The Greater butterfly-orchid is a tall orchid of hay meadows, grasslands and ancient woodlands. It has whitish-green flowers that have spreading petals and sepals - a bit like the wings of a…
Practical Conservation Work Groups
The practical conservation work groups carry out essential habitat management tasks for the benefit of local wildlife. Tasks are dependent on the season, but include coppicing, fencing or walling…
Small white
The small white is a common garden visitor. It is smaller than the similar large white, and has less black on its wingtips.
Love and look after it!
The Wildlife Trusts appeal to people’s love of nature following last weekend’s wildfires, vandalism, littering and disturbance to wildlife.
Wild deer: nature's most mighty
Wild deer are some of the most iconic mammals of the countryside.
After the crisis, what happens next?
Things have changed rapidly and dramatically. As we start to consider life after lockdown, we have a unique opportunity to reimagine society, and the Trust has a chance to influence this. We need your thoughts on what a different world could look like.
Make a pledge to look after your hedge
Somerset is a county blessed with an extensive network of hedgerows that are a vital part of our nature recovery network. Find out more about the importance of hedgerows, how to manage hedgerows,…
Making Space for Butterflies
Find out more about the Making Space for Butterflies project, kindly supported by Aggregate Industries.
30 Days Wild – UK’s most creative nature challenge celebrates tenth anniversary in June
Millions of participants benefit from countless acts of wildness over past decade