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 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]  The Coalition Government’s White Paper on the Natural Environment provides a real opportunity to lay the foundations of nature conservation for the 21st century, according to The Wildlife Trusts.
The conservation organisation’s comments come ahead of a public consultation and set out its recovery plans for the UK’s wildlife and fragmented habitats on land
[...click on headline to read full story]  Most of us can picture a hedgehog, blue tit or grasshopper, but what does one sound like?
Members of the Wildlife Watch, the Wildlife Trusts’ network of groups for children, are now able to find out thanks to some new state of the art
[...click on headline to read full story]  Leaders of the three main political parties have been sent a letter from The Wildlife Trusts – urging them to introduce a White Paper on nature and ecological restoration in their manifestoes. The leaders are also being asked to commit to the implementation of the Marine Act and securing the designation of Marine Protected
[...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
[...click on headline to read full story] The Annual Tom Dunn Lecture, one of the key events in the North East’s wildlife calendar, is to take place in Durham Town Hall in Market Square, on November 10. The guest speaker is Dr Anne Borland, Reader in Molecular Plant Physiology at the School of Biology at Newcastle University and Director of Moorbank Botanic Garden. Her lecture ‘A perfect storm’ takes the theme of the many threats
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A County Durham couple have stepped forward to help the region’s threatened woodland birds.
Janice and Michael Baker, whose son Matt Baker presents BBC TV’s Countryfile, have shown that a love of the environment runs deep in the family by pledging to improve an 8 hectare (20 acre) ancient wood on their organic sheep farm near Tow Law for species like Pied Flycatcher and Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. 
Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary (Boloria selene). Photo: James Lindsey at Ecology of Commanster – Click photo to enlarge. Durham Wildlife Trust and Northumbrian Water have launched a new project to protect rare species in the face of
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Male Ruddy Darter (Sympetrum sanguineum) – Photo courtesy André Karwath. Click to enlarge… Used under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License One of the UK’s rarest
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Marsh harrier chicks celebrating life in Northumberland. Northumberland Wildlife Trust is delighted to announce that up to four Marsh Harrier chicks have recently fledged at its East Chevington reserve. What makes this breeding even more exciting is the fact that this is the first confirmed breeding of Marsh Harriers in Northumberland since circa
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