It’s an age-old tradition – using fresh holly branches to adorn your table and give your home a festive look – but conservationists are warning that using too much could leave wildlife out in the cold this winter. Holly is a valuable source of food and shelter for a number of birds, mammals and insects. Thrushes, robins, dunnocks, finches and goldcrests use it for … [Read more...] about Don’t over trim your holly bush
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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
Make Your Nature Count
The RSPB wants to know what crawls, slithers, scuttles, flutters and flies in your garden with its new spring survey. Make Your Nature Count is being launched by the RSPB on 8-14 June 2009 and is a one-hour nature count of gardens. The RSPB wants to know exactly what nature gets up to over the spring. Not only is it asking people to record birds, its also wants … [Read more...] about Make Your Nature Count