Archive of: Butcherlands

  • Our Nature Reserves Photography Competition 2025

    12 September 2025

    Our Nature Reserves Photography Competition 2025

    Sussex Wildlife Trust is calling for photographers to showcase the stunning natural beauty of the Trust’s nature reserves in a new photography competition.

     
  • Meet the staff: Ryan Allison

    06 November 2024

    Meet the staff: Ryan Allison

    Meet Site Manager- West, Ryan Allison and find out more about his work, life and conservation grazing horses!

     
  • Lederman trainees - our first month

    06 May 2024

    Lederman trainees - our first month

    April has been the first month of Abi and Pip, new Lederman Trainee Rangers, living and working in East Sussex and they ‘are so happy to be here’. Find out what they’ve been getting up to.

     
  • Rewilding Butcherlands

    20 March 2024

    Rewilding Butcherlands

    Butcherlands is reclaimed arable land under conversion back to woodland. It is now a rich mosaic of grassland and scrub, home to Nightingales, Whitethroat and Wood White butterflies

     
  • Forest Copse Appeal: You did it!

    31 October 2023

    Forest Copse Appeal: You did it!

    A massive thank you to everyone who has supported our Forest Copse appeal. You have helped us raise £110,000 to buy three fields adjoining the northern edge of our Ebernoe Common nature reserve.

     
  • We are nearly there!

    13 October 2023

    We are nearly there!

    With your help, we’re now over three-quarters of the way towards the £110,000 needed to buy three fields adjoining the northern edge of our Ebernoe Common nature reserve.

     
  • Help us expand Ebernoe Common

    17 September 2023

    Help us expand Ebernoe Common

    This autumn we need to raise £110,000 to purchase three fields adjoining our nature reserve at Ebernoe Common. Help restore our landscape.

     
  • Nightingales on our reserves

    09 May 2022

    Nightingales on our reserves

    Ecologist Glenn Norris loses sleep over Nightingales on our reserves

     
  • Hedgerows for nature's recovery

    26 May 2021

    Hedgerows for nature's recovery

    Hedgerows are a well-loved feature of the British countryside that create important corridors and much needed connectivity for wildlife.

     
  • Nightingales, grumpy wood mice and money spiders

    06 May 2021

    Nightingales, grumpy wood mice and money spiders

    Glenn Norris tells us what he’s been seeing and hearing on the reserves recently

     
  • You've been framed

    08 March 2021

    You've been framed

    February is largely a calendar-planning and report-writing month for ecologists, luckily Glenn had a distraction in the form of a camouflaged green box.

     
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