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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 facing biodiversity on a local and global scale and asks
[...click on headline to read full story] 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 climate change, starting with County Durham‘s rarest butterfly. At
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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 types of wildlife habitat will be expanded following
[...click on headline to read full story]  Rainton Meadows Nature Reserve and Joe’s Pond near Houghton-le-Spring has shown itself to be at the top of the class for educational visits by being awarded a Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge.
The Quality Badge scheme combines for the first time learning and safety into one easily recognisable badge for all organisations providing learning outside the classroom experiences. Durham Wildlife Trust Director Jim Cokill said: “Being awarded the Quality Badge is a real coup for
[...click on headline to read full story] Durham Wildlife Trust now hosts parties for children and young people from 3-13 years old at Rainton Meadows.
The parties include pond dipping, mini beast hunts, bird watching, themed games and activities, party food, birthday cake, and goodie bags. Parties can last an hour or two or be a whole day of wildlife activities. The minimum number of children is six, with a maximum of 24, and there must be at least one adult with every six children. For more information, and details of the
[...click on headline to read full story] Volunteers from Sunderland Provider Services have taken over the coffee shop at Rainton Meadows and transformed it into Beckwith’s at Rainton.
The volunteers will be staffing the coffee shop every Monday, Wednesday and Friday between 10.30 and 2.30pm, selling a variety of refreshments. Local MP Fraser Kemp and Mayor of Sunderland Cllr Denis Richardson kindly performed the official opening before the Family Fun Day. Trust Director Jim Cokill said; “I’d encourage all members to come down and enjoy Beckwith’s. Their custom will support the work
[...click on headline to read full story] Durham Wildlife Trust is celebrating the acquisition of its newest nature reserve at Stanley Moss, approximately 2 miles east of Tow Law in Weardale.
Stanley Moss is one of the very few remaining blanket peat bogs in the lowlands of County Durham. Extending 7.5 hectares, it once covered a much larger area but the vast majority of this type of habitat has been lost due to opencast coal mining, forestry and agricultural improvements. The vegetation at Stanley Moss has developed over a thick layer of peat
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