How a smartphone app is helping save rare plants
...discovering these beautiful plants - as well as the bees, butterflies and birds that areas managed for arable plants support. The management advice and guidance in the app offers practical...
Busting the myths on outdoor learning in schools
Jim Burt is Natural England’s Principal Adviser for Outdoor Learning and has recently completed a project to help school children – particularly those from disadvantaged areas – experience the benefits of the natural environment by empowering teachers to bring the outdoors into everyday learning.
Stalking tigers on Surrey heathland
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Sarah Bunce, Posted on:
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Biodiversity, Protected sites and species, Wildlife
In the wilderness of Surrey, I went on a tiger hunt. A hunt for tiger beetles, that is. I work for Natural England as a warden on the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area. The heath tiger beetle should be widespread on my patch, but is sadly in massive decline.
How I changed my career thanks to a Natural England apprenticeship
When you think of an apprentice you’ll probably think of someone in their late teens, so it may surprise you to know that I started my apprenticeship with Natural England in my mid-thirties. To say it has been life changing is no understatement and making the decision to change my career later in life was surprisingly easy.
The importance of perception
...mile stretch of cliff line on the north of the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. It’s protected as a geological SSSI because of the soft rocks the cliffs are made...
The pre-referendum period
We hope you've been enjoying our new blog. We'll be quiet over the next few weeks while we're in the period of pre-referendum 'purdah'. We'll be back after the EU...
Fluctuating fortunes in a year of great bird books
...whose predatory habits can cause controversy. He began studying the buzzard on Dartmoor back in the 1950s when it was very much less common and widespread than it is today....
Planning a brighter future for the great crested newt
...great crested newts is now in operation across Woking, Surrey. An organisational licence for Woking Borough Council will enable a long-term approach to the conservation of newts, ensuring efforts are...
Welcome from the Chairman
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Andrew Sells, Posted on:
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Landscapes and access, Marine environment, Parks, trails and nature reserves, Protected sites and species
Welcome to Natural England’s new blog. This is a place where we’ll share updates on our work and stories from our staff - whether that's work on creating a continuous path around our coast and managing 140 National Nature Reserves, or conducting research on the recovery of the dormouse and monitoring populations of hen harriers.