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Posted: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 - 17:15
By: trustadmin
In my time so far as a Keeping it Wild trainee, I have been lucky enough to be based at Hutchinson's Bank in Croydon. Here we are helping to conserve the rich chalk grassland habitat. There’s something new to see with every visit, whether it’s a rare butterfly or an elusive orchid, you won’t have to look far.
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Posted: Monday, June 10, 2019 - 12:27
By: trustadmin
“Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another” (Maria Sibylla Merian, 1647 – 1717)
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Posted: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - 10:29
By: Sam-Bentley-Toon
Oak trees, of which there are many in the Great North Wood, are host to several species of a fascinating group of plant parasites called gall wasps. These tiny, stingless wasps produce bizarre swellings and protuberances on the buds, leaves, flowers and fruit of oaks called galls. Though you might easily overlook them, these outlandish formations once held a surprising degree of cultural and economic significance.
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Through the lens: Keeping it Wild Trainee Liz explains the e-DNA project with Natural History Museum
Posted: Monday, April 29, 2019 - 17:30
How well can you identify insects? Can you tell the difference between a harlequin and a 7-spot ladybird? The UK is home to over 30,000 different species of invertebrates and London Wildlife Trust has been working closely with the Angela Marmont Centre at Natural History Museum to create simple to use identification guides. During my Keeping it Wild Traineeship I’ve been lucky enough to collaborate on this exciting project.
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Posted: Monday, April 15, 2019 - 16:45
Keeping it Wild Project Trainee Ella has been wowing us with her wildlife photography over the last 12 weeks of her Traineeship. We asked her to share 10 tips with us before she finished the programme:
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Posted: Monday, April 15, 2019 - 14:12
From cultural histories layered in landscapes, to Fibonacci sequences found in flowers and pine cones. The questions and wonder provoked by microscopic to panoramic outdoor scenes combined with the calming effect of being in an open space complements health and education.
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Posted: Friday, April 12, 2019 - 12:48
Our Keeping it Wild Project Trainee Dexter provides some tips on how to get started with your very own wildlife pond, no matter how little space you may have.
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Posted: Monday, March 18, 2019 - 18:16
By: Edwin-Malins
Great North Wood project officer Edwin Malins discusses how choices gardeners make can influence a wooded urban landscape.
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Posted: Monday, February 25, 2019 - 11:23
By: trustadmin
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilised people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home” John Muir, 1901
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Posted: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - 15:27
By: trustadmin
We’re hard working to give much needed space for London’s magnificent diversity of insects; they help to make the city work. But there’s much more to do if we are to reverse their worrying declines.
London Wildlife Trust