Funding awarded to save vital habitats just outside of Belper
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust has been awarded over £18,000 from Biffa Award to save one of Derbyshire’s most important areas of wet grasslands at Wyver Lane Nature Reserve.
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust has been awarded over £18,000 from Biffa Award to save one of Derbyshire’s most important areas of wet grasslands at Wyver Lane Nature Reserve.
A summer meadow is a beautiful sight, but there’s so much more to it than gently waving grass heads and fabulous flowers.
A summer meadow is a beautiful sight, but there’s so much more to it than gently waving grass heads and fabulous flowers.
Flower-rich grasslands, once a part of every farm, are part of our culture. Most have developed alongside humans because of livestock grazing and cutting for hay. Many have archaeological and…
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust has been awarded £645,000 funding by Natural England as part of a trial to research how nature-rich woodlands, grasslands, wetlands and urban habitats take up carbon.
Wet woodlands in the UK can be wild, secretive places. Tangles of trailing creepers, tussocky sedges and lush tall-herbs conceal swampy pools and partially submerged fallen willow trunks, likely…
This is a strange, sparse habitat of grassland growing on old mining tracks and slag heaps, on river gravels and naturally exposed metal-rich soils in the mountains. Only the toughest metal-loving…
Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner Hardyal Dhindsa invited Derbyshire Wildlife
Trust to a special celebration event marking the release of more than £226,000 of crime
prevention…
Limited in distribution, this sweetly-scented, short-cropped, springy grassland is famed for its abundance of rare and scarce species.
Typical of softly rolling pastoral landscapes, the short, aromatic turf of lowland calcareous grassland is flower-rich and humming with insects in the summer. Its long use by humans lends it an…
Sprinkled with diminutive, short-living flowers in spring and parched dry by July, this is a habitat of heathlands, coastal grasslands and ancient parkland.