With species records of Somerset’s intertidal coastal zone absent for over 30 years, the Somerset Wildlife Trust seeks to update records of species abundance and biodiversity across its 53 miles…

Late summer is the best time to discover one of the UK’s chunkiest caterpillars, the elephant hawk-moth.

Today, the Copernicus climate modelling service has reported an all time high in the global average daily sea surface temperatures. Kathryn Brown, Director of Climate Change and Evidence, explains…

The work of the Somerset Local Nature Partnership’s Nature and Wellbeing group has been going from strength to strength since it formed in 2021.

Somerset Wildlife Trust, along with Wildlife Trusts across the UK, are celebrating National Marine Week from the 22nd of July to 6th of August. Guest blogger Arthur Blackwood has more...

Discover ten surprising species found in the UK’s seas.

Deployed on the 2nd of November 2022, our audio sensors have been hard at work recording bird song at Honeygar almost continuously for 7 months.

Do you want to help record wildlife across Somerset? How can you get involved in mapping nature just by using your smart phone? One of the simplest ways of playing your part is to get out in your…

Through the carbon credits scheme Wilder Carbon, SWT are committed to restoring ecosystem function within the peat soils at Honeygar.

If you are out and about on the Avalon Marshes nature reserves over the next few weeks and hear what sounds like a distant foghorn, then it may well be one of our resident bitterns.