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Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh
Enormous flocks of geese, ducks and swans swirl down from wide skies to drop onto the flat, open expanses of flooded grazing marshes in winter. In spring, lapwing tumble overhead and the soft,…
Opening the door to conservation for the next generation
How can young people really get a feel for working in conservation? Communities and Education Officer, Laura Allen, shares the many exciting ways they can get involved.
Women in Conservation - Introducing Jasmin
Never letting anyone else's expectations of what she could achieve limit her ambitions, International Women's Day seems the perfect opportunity to properly introduce Jasmin Atkinson:…
Barriers and Secrets to Success - Young People in Conservation
Young people want to work in conservation, so what's stopping them? Our Peatland Progress trainees reflect on their career journeys so far and what the barriers may be for the new generation…
From Classroom to Conservation: Students design the future Great Fen
Environmental Science A-Level students from Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology left the classroom to visit the Great Fen and design their concepts for the Fen of the Future.
Grayling
The grayling is one of our largest brown butterflies and a master of disguise - its cryptic colouring helps to camouflage it against bare earth and stones in its coastal habitats and on inland…
Orange-clubbed sea slug
A small colourful sea slug that can be found grazing on sea mats on the rocky shore and beyond the low water mark.
Avocet
A key species in the story of conservation, the avocet represents an amazing recovery of a bird once extinct in the UK. This pied bird, with its distinctive upturned bill, can now be seen on…
Heath fritillary
The rare heath fritillary was on the brink of extinction in the 1970s, but conservation action turned its fortunes around. It is still confined to a small number of sites in the south of England,…
Amazing Veg and Protecting our Soils
Lorna Parker visited G's farm to discover what one of the UK's biggest salad growers is doing to try and reduce its carbon footprint and protect peat soils.
Meet the Graziers - Kate Hawes and the Talisker Highland Ponies
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.