Woodland
Our woodlands are a key tool in the box when addressing climate change for their carbon storage potential, but are less well known for their potential to limit flooding events, with wet woodlands…
Our woodlands are a key tool in the box when addressing climate change for their carbon storage potential, but are less well known for their potential to limit flooding events, with wet woodlands…
Wet woodlands in the UK can be wild, secretive places. Tangles of trailing creepers, tussocky sedges and lush tall-herbs conceal swampy pools and partially submerged fallen willow trunks, likely…
Meet the dawn chorus’s percussion section…
These tiny habitats, the source of our streams and rivers, are fundamental to the well-being of whole water catchments.
Few of us can contemplate having a wood in our back gardens, but just a few metres is enough to establish this mini-habitat!
The secretive woodlark can be hard to spot. It nests on the ground on our southern heathlands and uses scattered trees and woodland edges for lookout posts.
Restoring life to our woodlands
Llanfair Caereinion Town Council has received over £60,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund for an exciting project - Llanfair Community Woodland Restoration Project - in Deri Woods, Llanfair…
Spiny lobster, crawfish, crayfish, rock lobsters - many names, one animal! This pretty lobster was made extinct in many areas through overfishing, but is now making a slow comeback.
These wild, open landscapes stretch over large areas and are most often found in uplands. Although slow to awaken in spring, by late summer heathland can be an eye-catching purple haze of heather…
One of our most extensive habitats, moorlands cover huge areas in the uplands. Great expanses of unenclosed, wild-seeming land impart a sense of freedom and adventure, although the wide, open…
Our largest starfish, the spiny starfish can reach an impressive diameter of 70cm!