Archive
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06 August 2020
Ground breaking decision for British beavers
After years of uncertainty, the Government has announced their ground breaking decision to allow England’s first wild breeding population of beavers to stay in their Devon home.
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05 August 2020
The Wasp Spiders Return
It's the most wonderful time of the year! At the start of August you'll find me crawling around my front lawn - my wildflower meadow. I've been waiting all year for this day to arrive. The spring and summer days of flowers, butterflies and bees and thousand other insects have passed and the colours of the meadow have started to fade.
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03 August 2020
The amazingly oceanic Kittiwake
They may not look like hardy sea-farers but Kittiwakes spend half the year wandering the Atlantic, making them the most oceanic gull in the world.
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02 August 2020
The very essence of water
Water. Where would we be without it? The truth is, we probably wouldn’t be at all. Water is the key to life on our blue planet but beyond our vast oceans, glaciers and underground aquifers only a tiny fraction of it (just 0.1%) is accessible on the surface in freshwater ponds, rivers, lakes and wetlands.
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02 August 2020
Rockpooling
Charlotte Owen talks us through the joys of rockpooling
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01 August 2020
Sussex Flow Initiative receive CPRE Countryside Award
Sussex Wildlife Trust is delighted that the Sussex Flow Initiative (SFI) has been given a Countryside Award this year in the category of Promoting Nature and the Countryside.
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01 August 2020
July 2020 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
While this year has not been a great one for out breeding birds, there were still some bright spots to be found!
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31 July 2020
Red Kite
The Red Kite is an increasingly familiar sight in the skies above Sussex, soaring effortlessly over the South Downs on an almost-six-foot wingspan.
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30 July 2020
Help Our Kelp update
Please write to your local Sussex MP to ask for The Sussex Near Shore Trawling Byelaw to be implemented to Help Our Kelp
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29 July 2020
Six tonnes of fishing gear collected and recycled
Wild Coast Sussex Project Manager Nikki Hills is delighted to announce that an amazing six tonnes of end of life fishing gear has been collected by commercial fishing community in Eastbourne, Worthing and Littlehampton and will be recycled.
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28 July 2020
Stepping up for marine wildlife
The Sussex Wildlife Trust is celebrating Marine Week and is stepping up its support for marine wildlife all along the coast of Sussex.
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27 July 2020
Marine Litter
As Coronavirus lockdown measures continue to ease, there has been a noticeable spike in the amount of rubbish being left on beaches as more people are able to spend more time at the coast. Find out what you can do to help.