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We're a conservation charity dedicated to protecting nature in Cumbria. Become a member today to support wildlife and wild places! 🐿️🌱

You can help wildlife by joining us. We're the only voluntary organisation dedicated solely to the conservation of the wildlife and wild places of Cumbria. http://www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/joinus

05/11/2026

These tiny seeds have a BIG future ahead of them...(and you can be part of it!) 💚

Join Rowan, our Community Tree Grower, as they take you through part of the process of growing Skiddaw Forest trees from seeds to saplings🌱 With 600,000 trees to grow, it's no small task!

Be part of this epic nature restoration project by sponsoring trees, for yourself or as a gift 🎁 A tree sponsorship helps keep our six tree nurseries running and funds staff to coordinate our dedicated tree-growing volunteers.

Find the sponsorship link in the comments below 👇

The Skiddaw project is supported by Aviva as part of The The Wildlife Trusts Atlantic Rainforest Restoration programme.

03/11/2026

📢 One week to go! 📢 Join Ali McKernan (aka TheFUNgi Guy) to learn about all things fungi:

📍Where to find them
🔍How to identify them
🍄And lots of interesting fungi facts!

Registration link in the comments 👇👇

31/10/2026

Plenty of wildlife sightings at our Gosling S**e northern office this month!🐸🐦🐝🦔 What's been your favourite wildlife spot in October?

30/10/2026

⚠️ Be wildlife-aware this Bonfire Night ⚠️ Please SHARE this post to spread the word!

🦔 Hedgehogs, amphibians and invertebrates mistake bonfires for a cosy place to take a nap, so always check for wildlife before you light them.

🎆 Fireworks cause substantial distress and disruption to wildlife, especially birds. If you want to watch them, head to an organised event to help minimise impacts on your local wildlife.

30/10/2026

One for the peatland nerds 😂 but here's why we should all fear hags...👇😱

Hags aren't just malevolent figures in scary stories, they're also characteristic features of peatland landscapes – exposed peat cliffs formed by erosion, either naturally or by human activities, like drainage and cutting.

These cliffs are left 'high and dry', unconnected to the water table and exposed to the effects of extreme weather conditions ☀️⛈️ They make our peatbogs less effective at the things they do best, like carbon capture and water retention to prevent flooding downstream (so you can see why our Peatlands Team don't like them).

Part of our peatland restoration work includes reprofiling peat hags – helping to minimise further erosion, enhance water retention and improve water quality by reducing the amount of peat particles being washed into rivers and streams.

So next time you see a hag, you can shout 'Oh no, a hag!!!' and then educate your walking buddies (or anyone who'll listen) on why they should support our peatland restoration work 👍

29/10/2026

It's , so we asked our Marine Team to send over their favourite nudibranchs 💙 Our Seagrass Assistant, Lucy, has a very seasonally appropriate reason for her favourite... 👻

29/10/2026

Warts and all, it's the common toad! 🐸 Long associated with witches, they're now a gardener's friend, helping keep slugs and snails at bay.

The association with witches began due to the foul-tasting toxins toads secrete through their skin to stop predators eating them. It made them a classic ingredient of (supposed) witch's potions in the 1600's 🧙‍♀️ Shakespeare then cemented this idea by adding a witch's toad familiar into Macbeth ✨

Toads are most active at night, busy hunting down a variety of invertebrates by sneaking up on them, before using their sticky tongues to catch their prey 👅 During the winter, they burrow into mud and compost, or hide under log piles, coming out to forage in milder weather.

This particular toad was found in our Plumgarths office garden, snuggled in the leaf litter 🍂

28/10/2026

Do other teams look forward to staff meetings like we do? It's always a great opportunity to get everyone in the same room and share some of the brilliant work that's being done across the Trust 💚

We heard updates about:
🐿️ our Red Squirrel projects (which included some lovely pics of pine marten s**t)
🌱 Cumbria's Local Nature Recovery Strategy
🌻 how our Community Team have been working with local groups and organisations to get people engaged with nature (and feel the benefits of it too!)

Followed by an engaging presentation from The Missing Lynx Project about their aims to bring the lynx back to northern England 🐾

27/10/2026

Join Ali McKernan (aka TheFUNgi Guy) for an online foray into fungi – where to find them, how to identify them, and lots of interesting fungi facts! 🍄

Registration link in the comments 👇👇

27/10/2026

Which ✨corvid familiar✨ would you pick to guide you through life's ups and downs? 🧙‍♀️

Address

Plumgarths, Crook Road
Kendal
LA88LX

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+441539816300

Website

http://www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/

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