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How to help wildlife at work
Attracting wildlife to your work will help improve their environment – and yours!
Work Party Volunteers (Chafford)
We are looking for work party volunteers on Wednesdays and Fridays to help maintain our unique Chafford Gorges reserve.
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Work Party Volunteers (Basildon)
Would you like to help maintain our Langdon and Langdon Lake Meadows reserves?
Work Party Volunteers (Chigwell)
Would you like to help maintain our Roding Valley Meadows reserve?
Essex charities work together to make wheelchair-friendly planters for recovery centre
Staff from Essex Wildlife Trust spent the day at Help for Heroes’ Colchester Recovery Centre, Chavasse House on Thursday, teaching beneficiaries to make wildlife planters for the centre’s garden…
Scots pine
The Scots pine is the native pine of Scotland and once stood in huge forests. It suffered large declines, however, as it was felled for timber and fuel. Today, it is making a comeback - good news…
Weasel
Weasels may look adorable, but they make light work of eating voles, mice and birds! They are related to otters and stoats, which is obvious thanks to their long slender bodies and short legs.
Patchwork leaf-cutter bee
The appearance of semi-circular holes in the leaves of your garden plants is a sure sign that the patchwork leaf-cutter bee has been at work. It is one of a number of leaf-cutter bee species…