Shropshire Wildlife Trust Blog

HM Government claimed its ambition was to ‘build the most sustainable high-speed railway of its kind in the world’. Really?

What a year 2020 could be. There are all manner of things that need doing NOW – none more so than tackling the climate crisis. Will this be the year we turn things around? A few New Year…

What a year was 2019. Despite the political turmoil, Shropshire Wildlife Trust was as active as ever. We can be justifiably proud of our achievements.

John Hughes pays tribute to Dr David Bellamy, who sadly passed away 11th December 2019.

With Halloween toys and costumes filling shops this week, you would assume our membership recruiter and bone enthusiast Ric would feel at home this season. However this is not the case! Read his…

I am getting increasingly upset when I hear the news that my species is declining so rapidly that we could be extinct within 30 years in the UK. We have been around for 15 million years and…

Today we are celebrating #GetOutsideDay, championed by Ordnance Survey. Our Education Officer, Bryony Carter has been on a mission for the last few years to climb all mountains over 2000ft in…

Berries are abundant at this time of the year but we are lucky to have several more unusual species in Shropshire.

With summer quickly heading towards Autumn the nights are starting to draw in and many of our borders are beginning to flag after flowering all summer. However, we still need to give wildlife a…

Over the last two weeks we have been celebrating National Marine Week, highlighting the wonderful wildlife found in UK seas. However, populations of marine wildlife have been shown to have…