Woodland
Woodlands are magical places, full of wildlife and full of history. Great spotted woodpeckers, nuthatches and jays flit between trees as butterflies dance in sunny glades. Badgers forage through…
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World of Wonders - Wild Reads 2024
No matter where she is transplanted, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship, even in the strange and the unlovely. For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past the distractions in order to fully appreciate the world's gifts.
Woodland creation
Woodlands are one of the most important habitats for wildlife in the UK and Suffolk Wildlife Trust is working hard to ensure that the region's ancient woodlands are protected and sensitively managed. In addition the Trust is supporting landowners and farmers to create new sites that have the potential to sustain a wide range of birds, mammals, invertebrates, reptiles and plant life.
Woodland management
Many of our woods have been in existence since the last ice-age and provide the richest places for wildlife. Most of them have been managed in a careful and sustainable way over the centuries to provide woodland products and fuel. Woods often show signs of traditional management which provided an excellent mixture of trees, shrubs and ground plants for wildlife.
Wet woodland
Wet woodlands in the UK can be wild, secretive places. Tangles of trailing creepers, tussocky sedges and lush tall-herbs conceal swampy pools and partially submerged fallen willow trunks, likely…
Woodland by natural regeneration
Natural regeneration is the best way of creating a new woodland for wildlife and expanding ancient semi natural woodland. Not only is it less expensive than planting up sites, but trees established by regeneration are more likely to be better adapted to local conditions and will result in a more natural composition suited to a variety of wildlife.
Designing a woodland for wildlife
Maddie Lord, Suffolk Wildlife Trust’s Farmland Wildlife Adviser, explores some of the questions that are helpful to bear in mind when considering creating a woodland that’s brilliant for wildlife…
Ancient Woodland under threat
Hintlesham Woods ancient woodland in Suffolk is under threat from a National Grid energy infrastructure project.
SEND Woodland Play at Knettishall Heath
Lauren Mack, our Wild Learning Officer at Knettishall Heath, had a lovely afternoon in the woods on Sunday 13th November, with local neurodiverse families attending our first SEND (special…
National Lottery winners bring Christmas magic to Suffolk
A team of National Lottery winners are creating moments of Christmas magic and surprise for visitors, young and old, at a Lowestoft nature reserve with a scattering of Christmas fairies.
Rowley Grove woodland purchase – thank you!
A huge thank you to everyone who has so generously supported the purchase of Rowley Grove, a precious ancient woodland situated on the southern border of Suffolk Wildlife Trust’s Arger Fen &…
Woodlands and hedgerows
Woodlands and hedgerows provide a complex habitat for a wide range of species,