News
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11 July 2021
Black-winged Stilt Diary 2021
Black-winged Stilts are a rare sight in Britain, but a pair nested at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve in 2021 for the first time.
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08 July 2021
Rewilding the Sussex Seas
Thanks to the players of People’s Postcode Lottery the Sussex Kelp Restoration Project has been established to ensure the successful restoration of a crucial marine ecosystem along the Sussex Coast from Chichester to Rye.
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07 July 2021
Sussex Art Fair at Goodwood
Huge thanks to all the wonderful artists who donated their work to Sussex Wildlife Trust at the recent Sussex Art Fair at Goodwood
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06 July 2021
Environmental Impact Assessment needed to protect chalk reef says Judicial Review
Sussex Wildlife Trust welcomes the court decision which has overturned the proposed reconstruction and extension of sea defences that threaten the internationally important chalk reef at Cuckmere Haven.
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06 July 2021
Is it a bee, or is it a fly in a cunning disguise?
Is it a bee? Is it a fly? Well, it’s a bee-fly. And why does it flick its eggs? Charlotte Owen tells us more
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05 July 2021
How the cunning cuckoo gets away with it
Charlotte Owen explains the devious breeding strategy of the cuckoo
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05 July 2021
Wildlife artist Annie Soudain
We speak to artist Annie Soudain about her beautiful lino prints of the area around Rye Harbour
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03 July 2021
60th anniversary t-shirt collection
We are excited to share our new t-shirt collection celebrating 60 years of the Sussex Wildlife Trust. The designs feature iconic Sussex wildlife including Short-snouted Seahorse, Adonis Blue butterfly and Bittern.
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02 July 2021
Keeping the skies screaming
During Swift Awareness Week, Emma Chaplin describes what happened when she moved to a Swift ‘hotspot’ in Lewes.
Around Sussex
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03 August 2015
Pip, Pip, Pip - Hooray
Last night was a bright moonlit night and at Castle Water part of Rye Harbour nature reserve we went in search of a very special pipistelle bat - the Nathusius’ pipistrelle, the largest of our THREE pipistrelle species
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02 August 2015
July 2015: Rye Harbour nature reserve sightings
One of the rarest species that we have at Rye Harbour is the least lettuce.
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28 July 2015
Moths and Bats at The Priory
Searching for nocturnal wildlife at Priory School