The great crested newt has had a really hard time over the last century. This began with the loss of farm ponds that were no longer needed for watering livestock or other farming operations. Newts moved to industrial ponds within brickworks, tilery ponds, gravel pits and water storage reservoirs at airfields and mines. By...
Have you spotted any mysterious tracks or unexplained droppings? Solve the case with some tips from Darren Tansley, the Mammal Detective. Mammals are all around us, from mice and voles to deer and foxes. They’re on our nature reserves, in our parks, and even in our gardens. But how often do you see them?...
Good dogs and their owners benefit from walkies amongst nature. In the Tees Valley, we are lucky to have access to so many nature reserves, green spaces and coastal stretches. But there is sometimes a conservation cost to this activity, such as disturbance to wild birds and mammals. These issues are much harder to...
Members receive a free copy of Wild Tees Magazine three times a year. You can read all the best news stories from Teesside and nationally. Luckily, membership is available for as little as £1.25 (giving more can help us do more). See our efforts to protect wildlife for the future and learn how to...
A midwinter nature challenge 12 Days Wild is our festive nature challenge, encouraging you to do one wild thing a day from the 25th December to the 5th January. In those weird days between Christmas and New Year, winter wildlife is just waiting to be explored! Your wild acts could be little things to help nature – like recycling your Christmas tree or feeding the...
Peat used in our compost is dug out of wild places, damaging some of the last remaining peatlands in the UK and overseas. This process also releases carbon into the atmosphere, accelerating climate change. Ten years ago, the Government set a voluntary target for the horticulture sector to stop selling peat compost to gardeners by 2020. But...
The Wildlife Trusts and young people call for more outdoor wild time at school. A new poll shows that people believe children do not spend enough time enjoying the natural world and that they should spend more of their school time learning outdoors in nature. It has been widely proven that regular contact with nature makes children healthier, happier, and better...
Hundreds of people aged under 30 contributed to a Youth Manifesto for Action on Climate Change, coordinated by the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s volunteer Young Leaders and published today (Friday 5 November) to send a message to decision-makers during the COP26 summit in Glasgow. The manifesto highlights the changes that young people from around the...
Peatland Mark-Hamblin 2020 VISION As COP26 closes in Glasgow, The Wildlife Trusts say that: UK Government shot itself in the foot prior to COP26 by cutting foreign aid, failing to ban new coal mines, and offering support for more oil and gas exploration in UK waters UK Government must increase ambition and speed-up carbon...
The Wildlife Trusts welcome the passing of the Environment Act, which will help the UK Government make significant progress in tackling the climate and nature crises. Along with other NGOs, MPs and Peers, we have campaigned for this bill for more than three years and are pleased to see it receiving Royal Assent in...
COP stands for ‘Conference of the Parties’ and these are UN conferences on its different conventions. COP26 is where world leaders come together to talk about climate change and how to tackle it, as it’s the COP for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. This year marks the 26th COP summit – hence...
First anniversary of Wildbelt in PM’s keynote speech – when will it happen? Today, The Wildlife Trusts publish a new report that, for the first time, calls for people’s access to nature to be set in law. Planning – a new way forward: how the planning system can help our health, nature and climate, comes...