Carvers Rocks
A great place to see birds all year round, with rare habitats including one of the last areas of lowland heath in Derbyshire.
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Nature reserves
Take a look at our nature reserves. Discover where is best to bird watch, see butterflies, where is great for kids and where you can just get away from it all. Enjoy, Derbyshire is waiting for you!
Accessible nature reserves
Accessibility is really important to us. Here are the reserves we recommend for visitors with limited mobility or pushchairs.
Big for Black Rocks
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust is celebrating a grant of £14,399 awarded by Tarmac, under the Landfill Communities Fund to improve the visitor experience at Black Rocks.
Summertime at Thornhill Carrs Nature Reserve
In today’s blog we bring you a summer visit to Thornhill Carrs Nature Reserve, talking all about what you might see during this time of year and how this beautiful reserve is an example of…
Fungal Foray at Thornhill Carrs Reserve
A Fungal Foray event was held at our Thornhill Carrs reserve to celebrate UK Fungus Day, an annual festival of fungi coordinated by the British Mycological Society to inspire everyone about the…
The Wild Peak Rounds: Connecting Nature Reserves, One Run at a Time
The Wild Peak Rounds link a number of our nature reserves in the Peak District to create a year-round challenge for walkers and runners. Including a combination of peaks, valleys and dales and up…
Thornhill Carrs Reserve - rewilding at its best!
Thornhill Carr Reserve - rewilding at its best!
My career path
As a Trainee Reserves officer at Rutland Water Nature Reserve, Dale is lucky enough that he can take his passion for wildlife to work with him, with a job that will set him up for a career in…
The Avenue Nature Reserves sightings report by Brian Cuttell
3 bullfinches on the feeders
Outdoor education gets the go ahead at one of Derbyshire’s premiere nature reserves
A new outdoor education area is set to be created at Hilton Gravel Pits Nature Reserve in the Trent Valley thanks to a £23,210 project funded by Veolia Environmental Trust through the Landfills…
Common carder bee
The common carder bee is a fluffy, gingery bumble bee that can often be found in gardens and woods, and on farmland and heaths. It is a social bee, nesting in cavities, old birds' nests and…