Blog: The Wildlife Trusts

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Marbled White on Pyramidal Orchid

Glorious grasslands

A summer meadow is a beautiful sight, but there’s so much more to it than gently waving grass heads and fabulous flowers.

A common blue butterfly perched on a grass head, with its blue wings spread open

Beguiled by blues

Butterfly expert Alan Sumnall offers a thorough guide to one of our most enchanting groups of butterflies – the blues.

A female blackbird staling through the long grass of a lawn, with a worm in her beak

Lions of the lawn

Discover some of the predators stalking through your garden’s grassland.

A young man and woman sit amongst flowering heather, with a dog on a lead sat beside them. The woman has her hands on the dog, whilst the man looks through a pair of binoculars.

Paws for thought

The UK is a nation of both dog lovers and nature lovers, but are those two passions compatible? We spoke to some Wildlife Trust staff who balance both.

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