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.
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Grasslands: Natural Solutions
'Unimproved' grasslands are extremely important for wildlife. 'Unimproved' means grassland that hasn't been reseeded, fertilised or drained.
Glorious grasslands
A summer meadow is a beautiful sight, but there’s so much more to it than gently waving grass heads and fabulous flowers.
Glorious Grasslands
A summer meadow is a beautiful sight, but there’s so much more to it than gently waving grass heads and fabulous flowers.
Grassland
Flower-rich grasslands, full of wildflowers such as orchids, snake's head fritillaries and bird's-foot trefoil support an abundance of insects, from bumblebees to butterflies.
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust’s pioneering project in fight against climate change receives major funding award
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.
Pond and Grasslands given their ‘dew’ with funded project to restore them
A project to restore wetlands and enhance species-rich grassland across two Derbyshire Wildlife Trust sites is going ahead thanks to support from the Farming in Protected Landscapes (FiPL)…
Wet woodland
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…
Elk, bison & beaver: Rewilding Britain award funding to projects exploring return of lost species
Funding is being awarded from Rewilding Britain to Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trusts for a joint project exploring bringing back elk to Britain.
Calaminarian grassland
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…
Upland calcareous grassland
Limited in distribution, this sweetly-scented, short-cropped, springy grassland is famed for its abundance of rare and scarce species.
Funding success celebrated by Derbyshire PCCF
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…