My year is bracketed by beetles. Glow worms (see previous blog) mark the end of spring and the arrival of summer. But when the leaves turn and the tawny owls begin calling and the nights start to…
Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust’s Head of Engagement and Learning, Lorna Fox, has been deeply involved in health and wellbeing in the natural environment work for the last 20 years. Here she…
In a different time, as a farm manger for a well-respected university farm, my work examined the small efficiencies we could make to produce more per cow per sheep or per hectare. We paved the way…
Josie, pine marten project officer, tells us about pine marten residential preferences and how we can make habitats more attractive for pine martens to den in…
‘A ribbon of lights’
One summer night in 1919 a young girl walking home across the Slad Valley collected enough glow worms along the way to decorate her straw hat with 'a ribbon of…
Our long-term volunteer and seasonal field assistant Lydia Galbraith gives us an insight into her work, and new-found obsession, with pine martens in the Forest of Dean.
This job has given me renewed respect for certain professions. The noble role of the Planner is one of them. Planners get a bad press. But when development is in the right place, designed with…
Many people head for the Lake District, Snowdonia and the Yorkshire Dales to walk within awe-inspiring landscapes, but equally breath-taking views are ours to enjoy much closer to home. The Laurie…
Amanda Lawrence lives, works and gets distracted by wildlife in the Slad Valley, near Stroud. She is a full-time glass artist and part-time wildlife surveyor and scrub basher, helping to run…
The berries have started to ripen and the days have begun to shorten. We are entering another phase in the year of the pine marten.
