Landscape Recovery
Our Landscape Recovery team delivers a range of nature restoration programmes on private land across Shropshire
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Purple hairstreak
The purple hairstreak is an elusive butterfly with a brilliant purple sheen. It is entirely reliant on oak trees and can be spotted chasing around the treetops in woodlands and parks.
Purple emperor
The male purple emperor is a stunning butterfly with a brilliant purple sheen. Look for it feeding around the treetops in woodlands, or on damp ground, animal droppings or even carrion in the…
Landscape Recovery projects
Find out more about the projects being delivered by the Landscape Recovery Team at Shropshire Wildlife Trust.
Purple laver
This purply-brown seaweed is a common feature on our rocky shores and on our dinner plates.
Early purple orchid
The Early purple orchid is one of the first orchids to pop up in spring. Look for its pinkish-purple flowers from April, when bluebells still carpet our woodland floors. Its leaves are dark green…
Purple sandpiper
This stocky wader is mostly a winter visitor to the UK, where it can be found on rocky, seaweed-covered coasts, often with groups of turnstones.
Purple topshell
Also known as the flat topshell, these are one of the most common and colourful sea snails you are likely to see when out on a rockpool safari!
Purple moor-grass and rush pasture
This distinctive type of damp pasture is generally found on commons, as a component of lowland fen, or in undeveloped corners of otherwise intensively farmed landscapes.
Purple-loosestrife
A tall plant, purple-loosestrife can form dense stands of bright purple flower spikes in wet habitats like reedbeds, fens and marshes.
Shropshire's Rivers
Our Land and Water Team are working on a wide variety of projects within Shropshire. These projects include managing and improving the health of our streams, rivers, ponds and canals, working with different partners to address flooding issues across the county and work with landowners to help regenerate farmland.
We work hard to access funding sources to enable key projects and habitat improvement works on all kinds of water bodies, from full landscape/catchment-scale to more localised target sites, helping mitigate climate change, protect everyone's future and create a River Recovery Network in Shropshire.
Find out about some of these projects below:
We work hard to access funding sources to enable key projects and habitat improvement works on all kinds of water bodies, from full landscape/catchment-scale to more localised target sites, helping mitigate climate change, protect everyone's future and create a River Recovery Network in Shropshire.
Find out about some of these projects below:
Restoring landscapes
Shropshire's wildlife and natural habitats play a valued role in addressing the climate and ecological emergencies. We are the only charitable organisation in the county focused solely on nature conservation in Shropshire. Ours is a beautiful county, but it needs our help.