Wildlife

Beetles Talk and Curry Night

Join Tim Kaye from Cultivating Learning and Nature (CLaN CIC)  who will be giving his new talk on ‘A Fondness for Beetles’ and then indulge in a delicious curry as well. Discover the amazing diversity of beetles, common species you can spot and the rarities in Herefordshire. Location: Peterchurch Village Hall Time and Date: 7.00pm, 18th May Price £12 per person Booking essential: tim@clan-cic.org All profits go back into community activities as we are a social enterprise.

HWT webinar: Recovering Nature in the Lugg Valley

10th April, 6pm, online Find out about how Radnorshire Wildlife Trust and Herefordshire Wildlife Trust are working together to recover nature in the Lugg Valley. The webinar will be compered by James Hitchcock, CEO Radnorshire Wildlife Trust and include presentations on: Storing water in the uplands – Radnorshire Wildlife Trust’s Wilder Lugg project – Dan Westbury, Wilder Lugg Project Officer, Radnorshire Wildlife Trust Recovering floodplain plants on Lugg Meadows – David Hutton, Nature Reserves Officer, Herefordshire Wildlife Trust Creating wetland habitat at Bodenham Lake – Sarah King, Nature Recovery Manager, Herefordshire Wildlife Trust Wye Adapt to Climate Change? Recovering nature, and creating a climate-resilient landscape within the

Citizen Science survey

HGN has been contacted by a PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London who is working on pollinator conservation and citizen intervention and is looking for participants for the second year of citizen science study ‘Optimow’. This study will be looking into how you can manage your garden to help bees, butterflies and other pollinators. In the study you will be given a mowing frequency to follow and then you will count pollinators in your garden each week. The study will take 15-25 minutes a week. This is the second year of the study. In 2023, there were an amazing

HWT Events

Herefordshire Wildlife Trust have a full programme of events aimed at all ages from Wild Adventure Club for 8 – 12 year olds to an immersive regenerative farm experience on Easter Sunday. For more details, and to book, Click here Click here to read the latest newsletter from HWT City Branch including volunteering opportunities and updates on their work on flooding. On Saturday 23rd March the HWT Ross group will be running a Wild About Gardens workshop. It runs from 9:30am to 12:30pm in the Baptist Church in Broad Street, Ross on Wye. Booking