Landscape Recovery
Our Landscape Recovery team delivers a range of nature restoration programmes on private land across Shropshire
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Landscape Recovery projects
Find out more about the projects being delivered by the Landscape Recovery Team at Shropshire Wildlife Trust.
Young People
Nature's future is in your hands!
Common cotton-grass
The fluffy, white heads of common cotton-grass dot our brown, boggy moors and heaths as if a giant bag of cotton wool balls has been thrown across the landscape!
Common hawthorn
In May, our hedgerows burst into life as common hawthorn erupts with creamy-white blossom, colouring the landscape and giving this thorny shrub its other name of 'May-tree'.
Lonely and socially isolated older people will be taken under the wing of Shropshire Wildlife Trust thanks to Shropshire Freemasons
Lonely and socially isolated older people from across the county continue to receive regular birdwatching visits from volunteers who share a love of nature, thanks to a grant from Shropshire…
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:
Common gorse
Windy, open moors covered in bright yellow, spiky common gorse bushes and purple heathers are synonymous with what we call 'wild' landscapes, but it can be seen in many habitats, from…
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.
Ancient Stiperstones landscape welcomes rare wildlife as conservation area triples in size
Shropshire Wildlife Trust with partners Natural England, Forestry England, The Linley Estate, Shropshire County Council, Shropshire Wildlife Trust, and Middle Marches Community Land Trust announce…
A snapshot of Shropshire
Rune, a master’s student in palaeontology at the University of Birmingham, reflects on their three-month placement with Shropshire Wildlife Trust. From exploring community engagement and…