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.
The living dead
Tim Hill, Conservation Manager with Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust, is an enthusiast for dead and rotten wood and the animals that depend on it. Read on and find out why decaying trunks,…
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…
Great diving beetle
The great diving beetle is a large and voracious predator of ponds and slow-moving waterways. Blackish-green in colour, it can be spotted coming to the surface to replenish the air supply it…
King diving beetle
Britain's largest 'diving beetle' is an impressive creature, though it's not easy to find.
Biting stonecrop
Also known as 'Goldmoss' due to its dense, low-growing nature and yellow flowers, Biting stonecrop can be seen on well-drained ground like sand dunes, shingle, grasslands, walls and…
Tawny mining bee
The tawny mining bee is a furry, gingery bee that can often be seen in parks and gardens during the springtime. Look for a volcano-like mound of earth in the lawn that marks the entrance to its…
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'.
Ashy mining bee
This black and grey solitary bee takes to the wing in spring, when it can be seen buzzing around burrows in open ground.
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!