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Trees woods and wildlife
Bilberry
Traditional healer and tea-time favourite. This low-growing shrub has potent medicinal powers harnessed for almost a thousand years, while its blue-black berries make excellent jams, pies and liqueurs.
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Woodland Trust Wood
Conegar Hill
Wootton Fitzpaine
3.54 ha (8.75 acres)
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Woodland Trust Wood
Coed y Crychydd
Llanilar
9.53 ha (23.55 acres)
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National Trust for Scotland Wood
The Hermitage
Perth and Kinross
13.96 ha (34.50 acres)
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Blog
Rare woodland animals and where to find them
Discover some of the UK's rarest woodland animals and where to spot them in the wild.
Annabel Kemp • 21 Sep 2023
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Blog
Shieldbug identification: 10 common UK shieldbugs
There are a number of shieldbug species in the UK, characterised by their flat, often triangular bodies and distinctive, shield-like shapes on their backs. Learn to tell which is which with our quick and easy guide to some of Britain's most familiar types.
Amy Lewis • 14 May 2021
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RSPB Wood
Cwm Clydach
Abertawe - Swansea
41.66 ha (102.94 acres)
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Natural Resources Wales Wood
Worsell Wood
Powys
29.40 ha (72.65 acres)
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Trees woods and wildlife
Oak processionary moth
The oak processionary moth not only strips oak trees of their leaves, leaving them vulnerable, but also poses a health risk to humans causing rashes and breathing difficulties.
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Trees woods and wildlife
Oak, Turkey
A pretender to the throne, the Turkey oak was introduced to the UK in the 1700s and is now impacting our native oak populations. It’s less valuable to wildlife, but much faster growing and a host of the knopper oak gall wasp.