Beavers in Hampshire
How seeing beavers making a comeback is giving us hope for a wilder future
How seeing beavers making a comeback is giving us hope for a wilder future
The reintroduction work, carried out by Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust and Butterfly Conservation, has been recognised in the 2021 Sanctuary Awards for restoring the threatened marsh…
Before the Second World War, meadows dripping with wildflowers and humming with insects would have been a familiar sight across the UK. However, in Hampshire flower-rich grasslands have declined…
The Isle of Wight has gained a conservation centre for endangered native crayfish, with support from the Watercress and Winterbounes scheme.
Conservation grazing is a forward-thinking method of using livestock for wildlife friendly, sustainable farming. Using livestock for conservation grazing purposes has increased in popularity in…
Each spring, the avocet, one of Britain’s most striking and scarce wading birds returns to Hampshire’s coastal wetlands. Elegant and unmistakable, with long bluish-grey legs and a graceful,…
A trainee ecologist's quest to record Hampshire's 6 fritilllary butterfly species.
The white-clawed crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes is the only species of crayfish that is native to the UK and it’s in trouble!