Trainee teachers choose the wild classroom! Ellie and Vicki led a two-day outdoor learning experience for trainee teachers, demonstrating how nature-based activities can effectively deliver core…

Wood Lane Nature Reserve faces an ongoing challenge with New Zealand Pygmyweed, an introduced aquatic plant that forms dense mats and disrupts habitats for wading birds. After spreading…

Head of Nature Reserves, Tom Freeland reflects on the achievements, challenges and lessons in the year since Shropshire Wildlife Trust started restoring Betchcott Hill.

Access to nature reserves and green spaces isn't always as straightforward to everyone as it would seem.

You’d be surprised at how many requests we receive from Countryfile for story ideas. Well, given that it has to fill an hour of air time every week, perhaps not. This time it was for the Offa’s…

Sweeney Fen hosts a very rare habitat for Shropshire – calcareous fen. Here base-rich water seeps from the limestone bedrock into the peat. Though small, the site is extremely diverse and, with…

Orchids have long held a mystique. Shropshire’s nature reserves and wild places are full of orchids, you just need to look in the right place at the right time.