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Annual General Meeting 2025
The Annual General Meeting of Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust
Reintroduction of the marsh fritillary in Hampshire wins prestigious conservation award
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…
Hampshire’s Marvellous Meadows
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…
Tipner West: Don’t Cross the Line
Tell Portsmouth City Council 'Don't Cross the Line' at Tipner West
Watercress and Winterbournes boosts new crayfish conservation centre
The Isle of Wight has gained a conservation centre for endangered native crayfish, with support from the Watercress and Winterbounes scheme.
Conservation grazing
Conservation grazing is the use of livestock such as cattle, sheep, goats, pigs or ponies to maintain and increase the wildlife value or biodiversity of habitats such as grasslands and heathlands.
Conservation grazing helping nature
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…
Marine Conservation Zones
Marine Conservation Zones are a kind of Marine Protected Area, which is an area managed in a particular way in order to safeguard its special wildlife and habitats. We're very pleased to have three in our region, but there are many more important sites that need protection.
Avocets nesting on Hampshire’s coast
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,…
Butterfly Quest: the search for Hampshire’s fritillaries
A trainee ecologist's quest to record Hampshire's 6 fritilllary butterfly species.
Conserving Native Crayfish in Hampshire
The white-clawed crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes is the only species of crayfish that is native to the UK and it’s in trouble!