Posted in Education, Living Landscapes, News on October 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Children from Tarvin Primary School have enjoyed a wild day out along the Gowy & Mersey rivers with Cheshire Wildlife Trust.
The school was the first to take part in the Trust’s Living Landscape project – supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, giving local communities in the Gowy & Mersey Washlands area the chance to discover more about the surrounding countryside and its wildlife.
Posted in How you can help, Living Landscapes on August 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cheshire gardeners could be forgiven for thinking they’ve walked out of their patio doors and into a tropical rainforest thanks to an unusual foreign visitor.
Posted in Events, Living Landscapes, Natural Know-How on August 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
CWT’s Living Landscapes Manager, Richard Gardener, takes an intrepid team in search of Cheshire’s elusive otters… Last Saturday morning (7th) and the weather looked decidedly dodgy but 15 plucky participants came to Grange Farm at Mickle Trafford to improve their ‘Natural Know How’ and learn all about Britain’s largest carnivore: the otter. To begin with I showed [...]
Posted in Conservation Grazing Project, Living Landscapes on August 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As the latest Government figures released last week show the lowest numbers of farmland birds in 40 years, the Trust’s very own Bickley Hall Farm is bucking the trend and seeing an increase in several nationally scarce species. Almost three-quarters of the 19 species in the Department for the Environment and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) report showed year-on-year [...]
Posted in Events, Living Landscapes, Nature Reserves, News, Uncategorized on May 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Gowy Meadows Nature Reserve is the Trust’s largest reserve. It has records of over 100 species of birds, and is home to water voles and other small mammals…
Posted in Living Landscapes, News, Uncategorized, tagged Alphabet Series, Cheshire Life, cheshire wildlife trust, Wildlife on May 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sue Tatman’s popular Alphabet Series for Cheshire Wildlife Trust continues in Cheshire Life’s May issue – out now – with the letter ‘W’.
Posted in How you can help, Living Landscapes, Nature Reserves, News, Wildlife Friendly Garden Awards, tagged Cheshire, gardening, Hilary Benn, Lindow Moss, MP, peat, peat free compost, The Wildlife Trusts, Wildlife on March 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Wildlife Trusts welcomed the announcement from Rt Hon Hilary Benn this month that the Government is calling for a phase-out of peat in compost material by 2020, but have warned that even greater urgency is needed if we are to restore and manage our peatlands effectively.
Posted in Events, Living Landscapes, Nature Reserves, News, tagged Biodiversity, Cheshire, Conservation, habitat, holt, homes for otters, National Otter Survey, otter, rivers, training, waterways on February 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Local land managers and farmers will be learning how to build new homes for otters this month thanks to a training event being organised by Cheshire Wildlife Trust (CWT) and the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) as part of the Cheshire region Biodiversity Partnership (CrBP).
Posted in How you can help, Living Landscapes, Wildlife Friendly Garden Awards, tagged awards, gardening, Wildlife on February 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It doesn’t matter how big or small your garden or yard at home, school or anywhere is. So long as your green space is good for wildlife you can earn yourself a Wildlife Friendly Garden Award.
Posted in Conservation Grazing Project, Living Landscapes, Nature Reserves, News, tagged calves, Conservation, dexter, grazing, longhorn, native breed cows, snow, Wildlife on February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There may be stock shortages in the supermarket and struggles with dustbin collections but for Cheshire Wildlife Trust, deliveries are coming thick and fast: the Trust’s herd of native breed cattle are in full calving mode, despite the snow.
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