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22/04/2026

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27/03/2026

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02/02/2026

It’s World Wetlands Day 💦

This year’s theme is ‘Wetlands and traditional knowledge: Celebrating cultural heritage’.

We’re fortunate to have some incredible wetlands across our region, but they’re under pressure.

To mark this annual celebration of wetlands, Avon Wildlife Trust's Nature and Climate Manager, Jen Robertson, shares insights into the wonderful North Somerset Levels and Moors and the partnership working to improve future climate resilience.

“This landscape is an important, rare and difficult to describe habitat - coastal and floodplain grazing marsh.
It is made up of many square miles of flat, low-lying ground, formed at the end of the last ice age (6000+ years ago) when impacts of tidal flow and glacial melt converged, dumping cake-like layers of tidal and mineral deposits over centuries as the waters gradually receded.”

Read more on our blog
👉www.avonwildlifetrust.org.uk/blog/jen-robertson/our-magical-moors-wetland-wonderlands



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22/01/2026

POV: The RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch starts tomorrow and you want to look your ✨best ✨

From 23 - 25 January, you can take part from the world’s largest garden wildlife survey, without even needing to leave the house:
🐦Sign up at www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/big-garden-birdwatch
🕰️Spend an hour watching which birds land on your patch
✍️Record them online or submit your sightings by post

Check out our friends at the RSPB for more information!

20/01/2026

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1,127 species have been recorded at Grow Wilder! 🎉
That’s 4,649 observations on just 6 acres in Bristol, BS16, within earshot of the M32! 🐝The staff and volunteers at Grow Wilder are dedicated and knowledgeable about monitoring on site, you may see them looking underneath logs and gathering around a beetle! Their enthusiasm is infectious and inspiring.

Monitoring one place over time is powerful 💥 It shows biodiversity trends, helps protect habitats, and shows how wildlife gardening makes a difference. Here are some species highlights
🐛 Hummingbird hawk-moth: adults & caterpillars
🦋 Silver-washed fritillary: a Bristol priority species
🐌 Rare Atlantic shelled slug: a soil health indicator
🦔 Hedgehog spotted at Green Shoots
🕷 Fencepost jumping spider: 17 observations
Plus: 510 insects, 78 fungi, 411 plants, 22 birds & more!

Visit Grow Wilder and add to this project on iNaturalist or start your own place-based monitoring project. Every record counts for nature recovery!
https://www.avonwildlifetrust.org.uk/team-wilder-resource-citizen-wildlife-reporting

11/12/2025

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🚨 The nightmare before Christmas

The UK Government is set to announce new loopholes in Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) rules next week, undoing hard-won progress for wildlife.

And that’s not all: plans are in motion to apply the Fingleton Review beyond nuclear regulation. This could mean watering down Habitats Regulations and reducing the responsibility of local councils to safeguard our National Parks and Landscapes.

Nature deserves better. You can help protect the spaces and places you love - tag your MP and let them know nature is for all.

Find out more www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/nightmare-christmas-worst-environmental-regression-decades-looms