BBC Countryfile features Hazlewood Marshes
Hazlewood Marshes, and our wardens Rachel and Andrew, featured on BBC Countryfile on Sunday 5th March.
Hazlewood Marshes, and our wardens Rachel and Andrew, featured on BBC Countryfile on Sunday 5th March.
If there is a landscape that encapsulates dynamic and dramatic change, it is here on the edgelands of the Suffolk coast.
This week our reserve teams saw avocets galore at Hazlewood Marshes, recycled a Corsican pine and were busy pollarding and clearing ditches at our winter work parties.
Andrew Excell, our South East Suffolk Sites Manager, remembers Ernie Lucking.
Once widespread, this attractive plant has declined as a result of modern agricultural practices and is now only found in four sites in South East England.
Andrew Excell, South East Suffolk Sites Manager, explains the importance of saltmarsh and mudflat habitats for biodiversity and the environment.
Large scale drainage in the UK has seen a massive reduction in the range of this sensitive aquatic plant which now only occurs in around 50 sites in England.
Bladder campion is so-called for the bladder-like bulge that sites just behind the five-petalled flower - this is actually the fused sepals. Look for it on grasslands, farmland and along hedgerows…