Pilot scheme to enrich young lives
PUPILS from ten schools in the North-East will be working with Durham Wildlife Trust to access life-enriching opportunities.
PUPILS from ten schools in the North-East will be working with Durham Wildlife Trust to access life-enriching opportunities.
Durham Wildlife Trust has been awarded a grant to further develop its tree-planting at a new County Durham wood and a group of local schoolchildren helped mark its third anniversary.
Healing Nature Digital Officer, Alex Permain, takes you on a photographic safari around one of our project sites, Hetton Lyons. He explains how you can engage with nature through this digital…
A NORTH-EAST youngster who ‘wants to be like Sir David Attenborough’ is leading the way as part of a record-breaking national green initiative.
Often confused with the larger but similarly shaped lion’s mane jellyfish, the blue jellyfish can be colourless when young and develop a striking blue-purple bell as it matures.
The meadow pipit favours moorland and grassland. It is an unfortunate victim of cuckolding behaviour - their own young being pushed out of the nest, so they can look after the 'parasitic…
The Holm oak is an introduced species that has been widely planted near the coast and in parkland. It is self-seeding in the south of the UK. Its young leaves are spiny like Holly leaves, and it…
A woodland with a young, regenerating structure
A common spider of heathland and grassland, the Nursery web spider has brown and black stripes running the length of its body. It is an active hunter, only using its silk to create a protective…
The Parent bug lives up to its name. The female lays her eggs on a Silver birch leaf, watching over them until they hatch. She stays with the young until they are adults. Other shield bugs lay…
The sharing of amazing wildlife photography has never been easier in the age of social media, but does every photographer adhere to ethical guidelines when it comes to getting the perfect picture…