Bedfords Park Den Building
Can you make the best shelter? Test your den-building skills here!
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Belfairs Den Building for Families
Could you make the best shelter? Test your den-building skills here!
Local Wildlife Sites
Local Wildlife Sites are areas of land that are especially important for their wildlife. They are some of our most valuable wildlife areas.
Abberton Bat Box Building
Build your own wooden bat box to help these nocturnal creatures!
Hanningfield Bird Box Building
Build a bird box to support our feathered friends for National Nest Box Week.
Abberton Bird Box Building
Build your own wooden bird box to help our feathered friends this National Nest Box Week!
Fingringhoe Bird Box Building
Build your own wooden bird box to help our feathered friends this National Nest Box Week!
Ray Island photo wins the public vote!
Essex Wildlife Trust’s Photography Competition 2018 winner announced
Urgent: Help protect Local Wildlife Sites
Essex Wildlife Trust urges people to call for protection for Local Wildlife Sites
On land and at sea, the UK Government’s planning policy is a mess
As the Planning and Infrastructure Bill is set to be debated by Parliament next week, Joan Edwards takes stock.
Lapwing
The distinctive rounded wings of the lapwing are displayed beautifully when it wheels around a winter sky in a massive flock. In spring, these flocks disperse and some birds breed in the UK.…
Planning
Essex is blessed with a rich and varied wildlife heritage and the county is famous for its coastline, arguably the longest in England; the coastal wetlands of Essex are renowned for their extensive areas of grazing marsh, lagoons, shingle, mudflats, saltmarsh, fresh water pools and reedbeds. In addition, there are extensive river systems, tracts of ancient woodland, mosaic and grassland, and important brownfield sites, with heaths, wetlands and important wildlife corridors scattered throughout the county within the wider farmed countryside. These beautiful wild places are vulnerable and many are under threat from development.