Archive
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18 December 2019
Future of transport in Sussex - please help
Please could you take a couple of minutes to send in a response to ask for transport which gives us all a cleaner and healthier future.
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18 December 2019
Soil - the biodiversity underworld
Soil is an amazing thing. Without soil we wouldn’t eat much, yet so many of us still see it as just dirt. Healthy soils store more carbon than the world’s oceans, and they are one of the most under publicised, wildlife-rich habitats on the planet.
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17 December 2019
Snow Bunting
The Snow Bunting, the planet’s toughest songbird, living in the Arctic Circle for much of the year. In the winter, you may be lucky enough to spot one of these plucky birds on a Sussex beach.
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16 December 2019
Queen's Park School go wild in the woods
Queen’s Park School enjoy forest school sessions at The Deneway Nature Reserve
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12 December 2019
Tree Dressing Delight
Families sang Christmas carols around the 300 year old oak tree at Woods Mill nature reserve last weekend
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11 December 2019
The naming of things
Nomenclature is the science of naming, with rules and systems for organising species and giving each one an official two-part title. But there is also an art to the naming of things and often a sense of magic, especially when it comes to common names. These are bestowed by everyday people with no rulebook in sight, and are often steeped in folklore.
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10 December 2019
Oil on Sussex beaches
One aspect of our seas has greatly improved in recent years - oil dumped by shipping…
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10 December 2019
12 Days of Wild Christmas
Get closer to nature this Christmas, with our winter wildlife challenge
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08 December 2019
Gnats All Folks!
This year I have been carrying out a survey of the invertebrates of the saline lagoons at Rye Harbour and am currently in the process of identifying the samples collected during the summer.
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06 December 2019
Regenerative agriculture and landscape innovation
There is an urgent need to find high impact, landscape scale, community based solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises. With around 70% of UK land designated as farmland, many eyes have naturally focused on the farming world to come up with the solutions.
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05 December 2019
Creating landscapes that provide the riches in variety that people and nature need
Guest blog by Chris Sandom, Senior Lecturer University of Sussex about how we create landscapes that people and nature need
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04 December 2019
If you only do twelve things for wildlife...
What are the 12 best things you can do for wildlife?