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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…
Marden branch meeting - HWT Matters
Monthly meeting and talk on HWT Matters
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.
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.
Habitat Improvements: Reprofiling Tender
Riverfly monitoring
Nature Reserves
Field cow-wheat
Once widespread, this attractive plant has declined as a result of modern agricultural practices and is now only found in four sites in South East England.
Nature Recovery Team
The reserves team oversee the management of 60 nature reserves, helped in no small part by our work party volunteers and voluntary wardens. As well as practical habitat management to keep our sites in optimum condition, they tussle with Rural Payment Agency funding claims; scheduling in graziers and contractors and keeping sites accessible to the public.
Greater water parsnip
Large scale drainage in the UK has seen a massive reduction in the range of this sensitive aquatic plant which now only occurs in around 50 sites in England.
Bladder campion
Bladder campion is so-called for the bladder-like bulge that sites just behind the five-petalled flower - this is actually the fused sepals. Look for it on grasslands, farmland and along hedgerows…