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Wildflowers for bees: how to attract bees to your garden
Wild bees and other pollinators are in decline. But there are things you can do in your garden to help reverse this trend including increasing food and habitat. Includes our top nine bee-friendly wildflowers to plant in your garden.
Helen Keating • 18 Mar 2019
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Foraging in February: mushrooms, nettles and early flowers
Even in February, green shoots and early spring flowers are starting to appear. And they’re growing quickly. Here are some spring plants and winter fungi to look out for.
Helen Keating • 22 Feb 2018
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Trees woods and wildlife
Red kite
A majestic scavenger, the red kite searches for food in almost any environment, then returns to nest in broadleaved woodland. Look out for them wheeling high in the air, or nesting up in the canopy.
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Partnerships
People's Postcode Lottery
Support from players of People's Postcode Lottery has raised over £28 million to date, planting millions of trees, investing in the next generation of naturalists, restoring precious woodland habitats and helped us buy our first mountain – Ben Shieldaig.
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Loch Arkaig osprey chicks bound for Spain as Dad’s catch plummets
Two young ospreys from a nest in Lochaber have been taken into a translocation programme after their father’s plummeting fish catch began to raise concern.
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Woodland Trust Wood
Penn Wood
Penn Street
176.33 ha (435.71 acres)
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New study reveals the UK’s rarest rainforest beetles are multi-day adventurers
A new study delving into the lives of one of the UK’s rarest beetles shows them to be athletes and adventurers – travelling the scaled–up equivalent of several kilometres a night in search of food and mates.
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Trees woods and wildlife
Arkaig ospreys: behind the scenes of a nest camera in the Scottish Highlands
No wi-fi, no plug sockets, no film crew. Meet the people behind the camera and explore the set of the UK's most remote family drama.
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Outdoor Christmas activities for families
Get out into nature this Christmas and enjoy some festive activities with your family on a woodland walk.
Danielle Wesley • 13 Dec 2021
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Press centre
300,000 households given new access to nature, new study of Northern Forest shows
More than 300,000 households have been given access to nature they previously didn’t have, a new Northern Forest study shows.