'In the Field'
This blog highlights some of the projects that have been sponsored by our Young Naturalist Fund
Unearthing the Impact of Rooting: Insights from Wilder Blean
5 December 2024
By Will Kelsey
At first glance, the connection between pigs and birds in a woodland might not be obvious. However, a recent study, funded by the Cameron Bespolka Trust and conducted at the Kent Wildlife Trust’s Wilder Blean woodland …
Pig Rooting Project
19 July 2024
By Will Kelsey
Happy to share that the 20 camera traps the Trust kindly helped me to hire have been running smoothly since late-May. I plan to analyse the usable images generated to see if birds show a preference for rooted areas.
I am expanding …
Multi-coloured Ghost Towns Published
16 January 2024
Alicia Hayden
Alicia is a young, award-winning wildlife photographer, artist, writer, and filmmaker from North Yorkshire
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By Alicia Hayden
“As I slipped out of earth-sodden clothes …
Nature Poetry Collection
22 May 2023
By Alicia Hayden
I just thought I'd post a quick update and let you know how my poetry collection is progressing. The collection is still tentatively called "Multi-coloured Ghost Towns", and it is exploring wildlife and nature, with …
The Green Gallery
20 February 2023
By Emily Hunt
Perhaps I was clutching at straws. I found it hard to believe that young people as a whole didn’t care about nature. So I sent out a request for people in my school to forward me any photographs of nature that they had in their …
Exploring The Land Of The Long White Cloud - Part I
27 October 2022
By Amy Hall
Tomorrow I will have been in New Zealand for 6 weeks. 6 weeks. Time has raced by since touching down on the tarmac in Auckland. I have travelled more than 2000 km from north to south (and back north again!), seen heaps of new species, …