This Halloween, discover some of our most spooktacular species.

In early October, the Trust was delighted to welcome Sara King from Rewilding Britain to the Durham Wildlife Trust patch, for a field trip to land the Trust has recently acquired.

Conservation Trainee, Mary-Anne Rielly, shares her experiences of botany training on the Identiplant course.

Head of Conservation for Durham Wildlife Trust, Mark Dinning, shares his thoughts on the recent national discussions regarding the water quality protection scheme called nutrient neutrality.

The Government wants to ditch laws that require housebuilders not to harm rivers. But we know these rules work – they enable houses to be built and rivers to be protected. Here’s how, writes Ali…

Insect expert Ben Keywood from Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust takes a closer look at craneflies.

As another season comes to an end, we take a look back on the summer of 2023 for the little terns of Seaton Carew.
By lead warden, Derek Wood

Today, the Copernicus climate modelling service has reported an all time high in the global average daily sea surface temperatures. Kathryn Brown, Director of Climate Change and Evidence, explains…

Late summer is the best time to discover one of the UK’s chunkiest caterpillars, the elephant hawk-moth.

Rainton Meadows is one of five sites monitored by bird ringing as part of the BTO’s Constant Effort Sites (CES) scheme. Our Conservation Trainees took the opportunity to shadow a session and were…