Retirement works for wildlife at home and in the Fen
Since retirement, Catherine Weightman has been balancing her time between working for wildlife in the Great Fen and the wildlife at home, in her award-winning garden!
Since retirement, Catherine Weightman has been balancing her time between working for wildlife in the Great Fen and the wildlife at home, in her award-winning garden!
Libby and Hannah are year 12 students from Hinchingbrooke School, Huntingdon. They joined us for work experience, learning about conservation careers and local wildlife.
Ethan and Evan from Abbey College, Ramsey, spent a week with the Great Fen team on their year 10 work experience.
The Marsh Carpet Moth is a beautiful yet nationally scarce species, short on suitable habitat. Catherine Weightman introduces us to an exciting new planting scheme, hoping to see local numbers…
At Woodwalton Fen, not all conservation work is undertaken by the hardworking Natural England staff and their volunteers. There’s also a team of beautiful Highland ponies taking up the reins.
Catherine Weightman looks at changing peat depth in the Fens. Do official calculations correlate with the experience of farmers in the fields?
Youth Ranger Broden shares his experience and photos from bird transects at Ramsey Heights as a part of his DofE award.
Alan Bowley, now retired, moved to the area in the 1990s to be Senior Reserves manager at English Nature (now Natural England) covering Woodwalton Fen and Holme Fen. 25 years on from the original…
Starting out on a PhD at University of East London, Georgemma Hunt shares some of her early-stage ambitions for using wetland farming crop - Typha latifolia - to produce a low-carbon…