Volunteers will be helping to protect the UK’s endangered bumblebee population as part of a three-year conservation project supported by a £340,000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant. The Bumblebee Conservation Trust (BCT) will begin work with 300 farmers and landowners and up to 20,000 members of the public from across the UK to raise awareness of these important pollinators and … [Read more...] about Lottery money to help protect Bumblebee
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Wildlife Trust Back to School
Year 6 pupils from Houghton Primary School in Carlisle, Cumbria, have come up with some wonderful ideas on how to improve wildlife at Cumbria Wildlife Trust's new organic farm. The 10- and 11-year-olds suggested building log piles at Gosling Sike Farm to attract snakes, lizards, frogs and toads, as well as small mammals such as voles. They also proposed creating new ponds … [Read more...] about Wildlife Trust Back to School
Podcast: Importance of bees
Bees are found all around the world except in areas of extreme cold such as the Poles. Bees are important to the natural ecosystem as they are responsible for polinating flowering plants. Recent changes in farming and the loss of many flower filled gardens are having a dramatic effect on bee numbers. It is thought that almost one third of the human food … [Read more...] about Podcast: Importance of bees
Bumble Bees Need You!
With spring in the air, it will soon be time for the queen Bumble Bees to emerge from hibernation. … [Read more...] about Bumble Bees Need You!