Volunteers visited Seaham Sewage Treatment Works Nature Reserve for the first time, to clear scrub and create invertebrate banks.

Heart of Durham volunteers have spent several task days cutting back scrub, which has been encroaching the grasslands and heathland in Black Plantation.

Our Heart of Durham volunteer team spent a day improving access to nature for visitors to Derwent Reservoir bird hide.

Scrub management at Pow Hill Heath

It’s that time of year when our homes become a hubbub of activity with many of our smallest citizens making their way across our thresholds.

...and A Little Help from Our Swedish Friend, by Kirsty Pollard – Heart of Durham Conservation Officer

The 2020 emergence of the small pearl-bordered fritillary butterflies

Derwent Reservoir, the second largest reservoir in the North East, boasts a spectacular assemblage of plants across a diverse range of habitats surrounding its banks.

Durham Wildlife Trust’s Heart of Durham Project volunteers in partnership with Northumbrian Water have created an artificial hibernacula on Pow Hill Heath, on the south side of Derwent Reservoir…

With a National Tree Week grant from Durham County Council, hedging plants and trees were purchased to complete the hedge around Thornley Wood just below Tow Law.