Archive
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24 June 2019
Natural Climate Solutions
Can we really avert Climate Crisis ?
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21 June 2019
Bank voles
The staff garden at Woods Mill is home to a healthy population of bank voles.
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19 June 2019
Stepping up
Dr Tony Whitbread writes about what his appointment as President of Sussex Wildlife Trust means to him.
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18 June 2019
Examination Pressure
Local Plans are produced by local authorities, setting out how much housing and employment space is required in their district or borough. Sussex Wildlife Trust is supportive of a plan-led system because – if done properly - it allows us to ensure that biodiversity can be embedded at the heart of communities.
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18 June 2019
Flies with Thighs
Grubbing about on the shingle recently looking for rare spiders I came across this hoverfly with swollen femora near the Mary Stanford lifeboat House.
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17 June 2019
Enough fish in the sea?
The breeding terns in Rye Bay have been struggling to maintain their breeding populations, and it’s seems to be getting worse.
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16 June 2019
Nightingale
Every year Nightingales make an incredible 3,000 mile journey from West Africa to the UK to breed, and Sussex is one of the best counties to listen out for them.
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14 June 2019
Ducklings
It’s duckling season and while these adorable bundles of fluff can be seen paddling about on ponds across Sussex, they can also turn up in some rather more unusual locations.
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12 June 2019
If you build it, they will come
Around four years ago, we attempted to rejuvenate one of the fields at Woods Mill into something less grass dominated and more meadow-like. A sign that a project like this has become really successful though is when host-specific invertebrates turn up to feed on the their food plants.
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10 June 2019
30 Days Wild at The Secret Campsite
Guest blogger Tim Bullen from The Secret Campsite, shares his 30 Days Wild adventures & looks forward to this year’s Secret Wildlife Festival
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07 June 2019
Road expansion doesn't work in Wales and it doesn't work in Sussex either
The First Minister for Wales has cancelled the M4 bypass around Newport – an outbreak of good sense that we hope will spread to South East England.
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06 June 2019
May 2019 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
May saw the first records of the very rare whelk jumping spider (Pellenes tripunctatus) on the reserve for 2019.