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  • Volunteers rock on

    11 February 2016

    Volunteers rock on

    Sussex Wildlife Trust volunteers have been working tirelessly over the past few weeks at Eridge Rocks nature reserve near Crowborough, a majestic sandstone rock outcrop set in mixed woodland.

     
  • Columbus crabs wash up in Sussex

    09 February 2016

    Columbus crabs wash up in Sussex

    Storm Imogen has helped these small crabs cross the Atlantic.

     
  • Stormy start for bird safaris

    09 February 2016

    Stormy start for bird safaris

    The first of this year’s bird safaris visted Pagham Harbour.

     
  • Wassailing

    08 February 2016

    Wassailing

    The wassailing rituals are a link with the past, a past when people were much more connected to the natural world around them than we are today.

     
  • The price of everything and the value of nothing

    03 February 2016

    The price of everything and the value of nothing

    The problem with our current economic system is that nature, while being absolutely essential, is not valued. If something is not valued then it is not considered highly in decision making.

     
  • Undersea Explorers at Brighton

    02 February 2016

    Undersea Explorers at Brighton

    Come along to Brighton Swimming Centre in Eastern Road for a snorkelling experience with a difference on Thursday 18 February. The pool will be filled with life-like marine plants and animals to swim between.

     
  • January 2016: Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings

    01 February 2016

    January 2016: Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings

    Highlight during January was a Lapland bunting which was present on Harbour Farm on the 28th.

     
  • Bat boxes along the River Mole

    29 January 2016

    Bat boxes along the River Mole

    Thanks to funding from the Biffa Award Scheme, we have recently installed 24 new bat boxes along a section of the River Mole

     
  • Water - not an enemy but a misunderstood friend - World Wetlands Day

    28 January 2016

    Water - not an enemy but a misunderstood friend - World Wetlands Day

    World Wetlands Day is on 2 February 2016.

     
  • Lund Trust

    27 January 2016

    Lund Trust

    We are grateful to Lund Trust, a charitable fund of Peter Baldwin and Lisbet Rausing for the recent generous donation towards the work of our Land Management Team and more specifically the conservation of heathland in Sussex.

     
  • Fill your head with wildlife in 2016

    26 January 2016

    Fill your head with wildlife in 2016

    In 2016 Sussex Wildlife Trust is giving you the opportunity to get closer to nature and learn more about the wonderful wildlife of Sussex.

     
  • Searching for a Hairstreak in a Haystack.

    25 January 2016

    Searching for a Hairstreak in a Haystack.

    The popular English winter pastime of searching for the eggs of the brown hairstreak butterfly.