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  • Help kit out our new education zone

    16 March 2020

    Help kit out our new education zone

    Sussex Wildlife Trust has launched a new crowdfunding campaign, to help us kit out the environmental educational facility within the Rye Harbour Discovery Centre.

    This facility will allow the learning and engagement team to host school excursions and adult education, and this means visitors of all ages can learn more about the rare and special wildlife at the reserve.

     
  • All things need a name

    10 March 2020

    All things need a name

    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.

     
  • Goose Barnacle, Barnacle Goose

    06 March 2020

    Goose Barnacle, Barnacle Goose

    Goose Barnacles, can be found in their thousands still clinging to their driftwood raft on the strandline, They once puzzled people for hundreds of years.

     
  • Have your say about the Natural Environment in Horsham District

    05 March 2020

    Have your say about the Natural Environment in Horsham District

    We have received lots of enquiries from people concerned about how the natural environment is being considered in the Horsham Local Plan and how they can respond to the public consultation.

     
  • Denizens of the Dark

    04 March 2020

    Denizens of the Dark

    At this time of the year there is always much excitement around the appearance of the first bumblebee or the first butterfly, and why not?

     
  • Wild Daffodils at West Dean Woods

    03 March 2020

    Wild Daffodils at West Dean Woods

    In Sussex, Wild Daffodils are locally frequent with the majority found in old woods on the Weald. This was a common plant but is significantly declining due to agricultural improvement of meadows and mismanaged woodlands.

     
  • Slipper Limpet

    02 March 2020

    Slipper Limpet

    Along our Sussex beaches there are millions of shells of the Common Slipper Limpet - so named because the empty shells resemble tiny slippers up to 50mm long.

     
  • There is no wealth but life

    02 March 2020

    There is no wealth but life

    If we win the war against nature, we will have crushed the very life support systems on which we depend. This will be our ultimate “Pyrrhic victory”.

    So what is driving us towards our own self destruction?

     
  • Early Birdsong

    02 March 2020

    Early Birdsong

    Birdsong is making a comeback. Just as we’ve got used to the relative quiet of the long winter months, the first tentative notes of nearly-spring spark an instant remembrance of what’s been missing all this time.

     

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