How to provide water for wildlife
All animals need water to survive. By providing a water source in your garden, you can invite in a whole menagerie!
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Two Little Owl chicks sitting on a branch. Credit: Hilary Chambers
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How to provide bushes for nesting birds
In the spring, birds choose the best locations to build nests, so why not offer them a safe place to settle?
Children's Parties
Choose a wildlife-themed party for your little one with Durham Wildlife Trust. Choose from a range of activities, from pond dipping and bug hunting to flower power or den building.
Joe's Pond
One of relatively few areas of open-water in eastern Durham, Joe's Pond is a spring-fed lowland pond occupying an old brick pit and is an excellent place for birdwatching, with areas of fen…
Pond patrol
Discover some of the special species living in a garden pond, with entomologist Ben Keywood.
Discover Barmston Pond
Discover more about Barmston Pond. 🦋
Transforming Brinkburn Pond
Incredible efforts from 'Brinkburn Community Volunteers' to transform Brinkburn Pond.
Common pond skater
The common pond skater can be seen 'skating' over the surface of ponds, lakes, ditches and slow-moving rivers. It is predatory, feeding on small insects by detecting vibrations in the…
Greater pond sedge
A tussocky sedge, Greater pond sedge has stout, upright flower spikes, strap-like leaves and triangular stems. It prefers lowland wetland habitats on heavy soils.
How to build a pond
A wildlife pond is one of the single best features for attracting new wildlife to the garden.
Brinkburn Pond Update
Last year, Durham Wildlife Trust sought and successfully obtained funding for the Brinkburn Champions project. Find out below how you can get involved, and learn more about the ongoing management…
Sunflowers power £2million for nature’s recovery
Wildlife friendly farm, which grows wild bird seed, and 100 acres of sunflowers, celebrates raising £2 million for wildlife conservation.