Herefordshire Local Wildlife Sites
What is a Local Wildlife Site? Plus, information for landowners in Herefordshire with a Local Wildlife Site on their land.
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Local Wildlife Sites: Updating Herefordshire’s Specially Designated Sites
Herefordshire Council are set to join up with Herefordshire Wildlife Trust in reviewing and updating the county’s designated Local Wildlife Sites. This new collaborative programme will fully…
Devastating declines must put nature at the top of the political agenda
Leading wildlife organisations, including Herefordshire Wildlife Trust publish a landmark State of Nature 2023 report. It shows that nature is continuing to decline at an alarming rate across the…
Sites across Herefordshire to be recognised for their wildlife value and distinctive local character
Herefordshire Wildlife Trust’s A Wilder Herefordshire project has surveyed over 50 ‘Local Wildlife Sites’ that provide particular wildlife habitats for the county’s wildlife.
What makes a pond a pond?
We all have a picture in our minds of what a pond is don’t we? For me it is the pond in the village I grew up in, a very traditional village pond with a duck house (which was constantly falling…
Calendar competition winners announced!
Fantastic images of wildlife - all taken in Herefordshire - fill our 2022 calendar.
General Site Visits and Reports
Detail on the site visits and reports that can be provided by Herefordshire Wildlife Trust's Farming with Nature consultancy.
Common bird's-foot-trefoil
Common bird's-foot-trefoil has a vareity of names that conjure up some interesting images: 'Eggs and Bacon', for instance! Its small, yellow, slipper-like flowers can be seen in all…
Wetland park proposal for Essex Arms site
Herefordshire Wildlife Trust's proposal to create a new wetland nature reserve alongside the link road in Hereford, on the site of the old Essex Arms.
My focus
For her A-Level Photography project, Emily-Jane is taking images of the landscapes that she loves; combining her two passions – photography and wildlife – so she can express herself in creative…
Dismay as revellers disturb key wildlife site
Visitors to Bodenham Lake nature reserve have been disturbing rather than watching the wildlife over the sunny weekend to grave concern from staff and volunteers at the reserve.
Farmland
Farmland can conjure up rural images of brown hares zig-zagging across fields, chattering flocks of finches and yellowhammers singing from thick, bushy hedges and field margins studded with…