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The state of Shropshire butterflies

With the Big Butterfly Count taking place between 15th July and 7th August, we asked Butterfly Conservation volunteer Stephen Lewis to give an idea of the current state of our local butterfly…

Peacock butterfly

Cath's Nature Notes - July

July is really a month for insects – butterflies and moths, dragonflies and damselflies. I’m thrilled to have seen a large skipper butterfly in my garden for the first time, and a meadow…

Kestrel

Dr Cath’s Nature Notes – May

May is a month of blooming. The early signs of spring are past, gone for another year, but May brings a fullness of new growth, with everything seeming to be hurrying along towards summer.

Red kite over farmland

Farming with nature

Regenerative Agriculture is now the buzz word in the farming world. It emerged from the term ‘sustainable intensification’ the implication being that activities were sustained or maintained as…

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