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 The first baby beavers to be born in the wild for about 400 years have been spotted in Scotland, it has been announced. Last May the trial reintroduction of beavers began with the babies, known as kits, thought to have been born about eight weeks ago.
About the size of a large
[...click on headline to read full story]  Northumberland’s three osprey chicks have taken to the air for the very first time.
The young birds, named Aqua, Splash and Spray, and only the second osprey family raised in North East England since records began 200 years ago, have all successfully flown in Kielder Water and the forest park. Over the past week
[...click on headline to read full story]  Planting trees along stream banks could play an important part in protecting sensitive fish such as salmon and trout from rising temperatures as the climate warms, a new study has found. Salmon and trout are among the most temperature-sensitive of Britain’s native cold-water species, typically preferring water temperatures
[...click on headline to read full story]  Three osprey chicks are ready to make more natural history in Northumberland – and now youngsters are being invited to suggest names for each of them.
The record breaking birds in Kielder Water & Forest Park are the second brood to hatch in the north east after their siblings successfully fledged year
[...click on headline to read full story]  It might not look much but this little fella is as rare as a good start for England in the World Cup. As the eyes of the world focused on the first football fixture of the tournament, keen-eyed conservationists are already celebrating a special goal for England – the first sighting of a very rare fungus
[...click on headline to read full story]  The Forestry Commission is backing a root and branch survey to assess the condition of the Tees Valley’s precious ancient woodlands. A grant of £4,000 has been made to the Tees Valley Biodiversity Partnership to undertake the task, which will take 18 months to complete and cover an area from Hartlepool and Redcar and
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Stunning new footage of Northumberland’s record breaking ospreys has been released by the Kielder Partnership. The adult osprey’s have been re-united in 155,000 acre Kielder Water & Forest Park after making their separate ways back from sub-Saharan Africa.
Last year the couple entered the record books by raising the first osprey chicks born in the North East of England for at least 200 years. Now one of the two cameras trained on the nest – or
[...click on headline to read full story]  Tawny owl numbers in Kielder Forest are soaring as the UK’s longest running research project on the bird enters its 30th year. Despite the harsh winter tawnies are benefiting from a remarkable recovery in the vole population locally.
The diminutive mammals are a favourite food for birds of prey, but
[...click on headline to read full story]  Kielder Water & Forest Park’s record breaking ospreys are a couple once again!
The Kielder Partnership can reveal that the female bird – who mothered three chicks last year, the first born in the North East of England for at least 200 years – has returned to the same nest she used last year, where she
[...click on headline to read full story]  Rangers in Kielder Water & Forest Park are scanning the skies for the return of ospreys which last year nested in Northumberland for the first time in at least 200 years. The Kielder Partnership says it’s likely that the iconic birds will return to nest once again in the 62,000 hectare (155,000 acre) Northumberland wilderness, after the pair
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