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  • Rye's Countryside Champions up for Top Awards

    05 October 2017

    Rye's Countryside Champions up for Top Awards

    Conservationists in Rye are ‘delighted’ after being named as finalists in the Sussex Countryside Awards.

     
  • Christmas has come early

    04 October 2017

    Christmas has come early

    Our ecologist thinks this is the best fungus he has ever seen!

     
  • Photo Competition Vote Open

    02 October 2017

    Photo Competition Vote Open

    Twelve superb wildlife and landscape images have been chosen from the hundreds entered in this year’s Sussex Wildlife Trust ‘Joy of Nature’ photo competition. Now it’s up to you to decide the overall winner and vote for your favourite by 29 October.

     
  • West Sussex County Council votes to increase road congestion throughout Sussex

    29 September 2017

    West Sussex County Council votes to increase road congestion throughout Sussex

    West Sussex County Council has voted to support an environmentally damaging bypass around Arundel

     
  • Sussex Naturalists Shortlisted for Award

    29 September 2017

    Sussex Naturalists Shortlisted for Award

    Peter Hodge and John Newnham have been shortlisted for the 2017 UK Awards for Biological Recording and Information Sharing

     
  • Buzzard bounce-back

    26 September 2017

    Buzzard bounce-back

    The beautiful buzzard is a common sight across Sussex, but that wasn’t always the case.

     
  • Perpetuating myths - a call to action

    20 September 2017

    Perpetuating myths - a call to action

    Proposers of big new roads need to prove that the environmental damage done by roads is outweighed by the benefit they provide.As we have seen, the benefits are illusory, congestion gets worse, not better. So, not much benefit then!

     
  • Charity Ball - an unqualified success

    18 September 2017

    Charity Ball - an unqualified success

    Sussex Wildlife Trust welcomed over 240 people to their Charity Ball at the weekend.

     
  • Oak Galls

    16 September 2017

    Oak Galls

    Next time you walk past an oak tree, take a closer look and you might notice something a bit unusual. Perhaps some of the acorns are ripening nicely but others seem to have mutated into an abnormal, knobbly mess. What’s going on?

     

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