Why is leaf litter so important for wildlife?
Autumn is here and the leaves are beginning to fall but what’s hiding just beneath that crispy, crunchy surface and why is leaf litter so important?
Ellie, from Lancashire Wildlife Trust,…
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Autumn is here and the leaves are beginning to fall but what’s hiding just beneath that crispy, crunchy surface and why is leaf litter so important?
Ellie, from Lancashire Wildlife Trust,…
Susan is Gosling Sike's writer in residence and shares her thoughts and short poem on pollinators.
During lockdown, residents of a village called Irthington, near Carlisle, came together as a Nature's Friends group (led by Sam and Danny Poland) to transform their local area for wildlife…
I remember running through a field with my best friend on her parents’ farm when I was about ten years old.
Tanya St. Pierre is Cumbria Wildlife Trusts’s ‘Planting for Pollinators’ Project Manager and fosters hedgehogs in her spare time.
Ali Morse, Water Policy Manager at The Wildlife Trusts, explores the importance of wetlands, with a focus on the benefits they bring to us, as well as wildlife – flood prevention, carbon capture…