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  • Natural Climate Solutions

    24 June 2019

    Natural Climate Solutions

    Can we really avert Climate Crisis ?

     
  • Bank voles

    21 June 2019

    Bank voles

    The staff garden at Woods Mill is home to a healthy population of bank voles.

     
  • Stepping up

    19 June 2019

    Stepping up

    Dr Tony Whitbread writes about what his appointment as President of Sussex Wildlife Trust means to him.

     
  • Examination Pressure

    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.

     
  • Flies with Thighs

    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.

     
  • Enough fish in the sea?

    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.

     
  • Nightingale

    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.

     
  • Ducklings

    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.

     
  • If you build it, they will come

    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.

     
  • 30 Days Wild at The Secret Campsite

    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

     
  • Road expansion doesn't work in Wales and it doesn't work in Sussex either

    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.

     
  • May 2019 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings

    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.