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Bat spotting and £1000 green awards for community groups with Notts Willdlife Trust

Noctule bat NottsWT cpt Bat Conservation Trust

On Friday September 14th Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust is offering families the chance to go batty with an evening of bat themed activities at its Idle Valley Nature Reserve. The event offers the chance to learn more about bats, with bat detectors available for families to use, plus a range of children’s activities. The evening will start at 8pm at the ... Read More »

Rarities returning to Notts nature reserve

Gypsonoma Minutana Nottswt cpt Tim Sexton

Rare moths and hairy dragonflies are among the more unusual creatures taking up residence at Nottinghamshire’s Attenborough Nature Reserve, say Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust. So far this year, staff and volunteers have received the first ever record of a roe deer and first confirmed record of a badger, but more recently it has been invertebrates providing excitement for wildlife recorders. Earlier ... Read More »

No regrets but more egrets as Notts Wildlife Trust launch book

Kingfisher Newark Notts

A new book will be launched by Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust this week celebrating the efforts of the volunteers who help record wildlife and manage habitat at the Trust’s much-loved Attenborough Nature Reserve south of Nottingham. The new book from the county’s largest locally-based conservation charity is called The Wildlife of Attenborough Nature Reserve and details well over 1000 species recorded ... Read More »