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  • Fun on the allotment

    10 August 2025

    Fun on the allotment

    Wonderful for growing your own fruit and veg, great exercise, fun for the kids and great for wildlife. Find out about Ros’s allotment

     
  • Meet the longhorn beetle

    08 August 2025

    Meet the longhorn beetle

    It’s easy to see how the longhorn beetles got their name. Ranger, Matt Rich, spills the beans on his favourite beetles.

     
  • Acclaimed musician, Ruby Colley, to perform at Rye

    08 August 2025

    Acclaimed musician, Ruby Colley, to perform at Rye

    “Oozing with lyrical beauty” ★★★★ Arts Desk Don’t miss this standout musician at the Discovery Centre in September.

     
  • Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Wildlife Sightings: July 2025

    05 August 2025

    Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Wildlife Sightings: July 2025

    Five species of tern, returning waders and the reappearance of Broad-leaved Helleborine were among the month’s highlights.

     
  • 'Blue Mentors' trained in Eastbourne

    04 August 2025

    'Blue Mentors' trained in Eastbourne

    A nationwide scheme aimed at engaging young people with their ‘blue’ spaces – coasts, rivers, and estuaries – has been lent a helping hand by Sussex Wildlife Trust.

     
  • Himalayan Balsam: A Big Annual Problem For Nature

    04 August 2025

    Himalayan Balsam: A Big Annual Problem For Nature

    Senior Land Advisor, Rich Black, explains why Himalayan Balsam is causing mountains of trouble for our waterways, and how you can help the Wilder Horsham District project to reverse it.

     
  • Cinnabar caterpillars

    04 August 2025

    Cinnabar caterpillars

    It seems to have been a good summer for Cinnabar Moth caterpillars. They can be found in their hundreds munching away on yellow-flowered Ragwort, and their bold black-and-gold stripes make them easy to identify.

     
  • Sussex seabed habitats

    03 August 2025

    Sussex seabed habitats

    For Marine Week 2025, Wilder Communities Officer (Coastal) Ella Garrud, tells us about our amazing Sussex seabed habitats

     
  • Music in the woods - meet Nicoleta Carpineanu

    02 August 2025

    Music in the woods - meet Nicoleta Carpineanu

    Nicoleta Carpineanu has been undertaking a rather special creative project that involves two ‘forests’ - the ancient woods at Ebernoe Common and the kelp forest under the sea off the Sussex coast

     

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Around Sussex

  • Species Spotlight: Merlin

    20 October 2020

    Species Spotlight: Merlin

    It’s eminently possible many living in Sussex may never have seen a Merlin. For like a huge array of birds the Merlin is a migrant, a breeding inhabitant of chilly northern latitudes

     
  • Return to guided walks at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve

    07 September 2020

    Return to guided walks at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve

    Our first guided walk for many months at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve set out along the shore on World Shorebirds Day

     
  • Species Spotlight: Heather

    02 September 2020

    Species Spotlight: Heather

    The British Isles boasts one of the richest ranges of Heather species anywhere in the world, though there are three distinct and common varieties you’re most likely to see

     

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