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Event reports and news from Brentwood & Billericay local group.
What is bottom trawling?
Sir David Attenborough’s new documentary ‘Ocean’ shines a light on the devastation that bottom trawling wreaks on seabeds. Here we explain more about what bottom trawling is.
What is a Nudibranch?
Nudibranchs, also known as sea slugs, are much like their land-based relatives that you may spot in your garden. But, unlike your regular garden slug, the nudibranch can incorporate the stinging…
About us
Essex Wildlife Trust was established in 1959 and has grown from strength to strength, always striving to protect wildlife for the future and for the people of Essex.
Election results are in – what’s next for nature?
With the results now in, what does it mean for nature?
Change what you eat
Eat more plant-based foods, reduce your food waste and buy local produce to shrink your environmental footprint.
What to feed hedgehogs and badgers
Putting out a bit of food can help see mammals like hedgehogs through colder spells.
What's on at Essex Wildlife Trust
Events and activities at our Nature Discovery Centres and nature reserves.
After the crisis, what happens next?
Things have changed rapidly and dramatically. As we start to consider life after lockdown, we have a unique opportunity to reimagine society, and the Trust has a chance to influence this. We need your thoughts on what a different world could look like.
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