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Marches Mosses BogLIFE Project shortlisted for International Award
This year, The Marches Mosses BogLIFE Project is just one of 6 projects that have been shortlisted internationally for the award. The public vote opens at 10:00pm (UK time) on Tuesday, 6 September…
Emperor dragonfly
The emperor dragonfly is an impressively large and colourful dragonfly of ponds, lakes, canals and flooded gravel pits. It flies between June and August and even eats its prey on the wing.
Hairy dragonfly
The UK's smallest hawker, the Hairy dragonfly is mostly black in colour, but has a distinctively hairy thorax. It can be found in grazing marshes and flooded gravel pits, and along canals…
Moths on the Mosses
With over 100 species of moths found on the Moss, I was keen to go to the moth trapping and photography event at Whixall Moss in July and have the opportunity to see some of these beautiful,…
Golden-ringed dragonfly
A voracious predator that will even eat other dragonflies, the golden-ringed dragonfly is the UK's longest species. It can be found around acidic streams in moorland and heathland habitats.…
Restoring the Marches Mosses to help the climate emergency and biodiversity crisis
John Box, member of the SWT Carbon and Climate Group, talks about how recreating bogs can help in slowing climate change with the help of BogLIFE Project Manager Robert Duff.
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Wilder Marches
Business Development Manager (Wilder Marches) - Maternity Cover
The ‘Wilder Marches’ is an iconic cultural and ecological landscape straddling the English Welsh border, broadly defined by the Radnorshire Hills and Clun & NW Herefordshire national landscape…
BogLIFE update: former scrapyard site and flooded fields
Almost a year has passed since clearance work was completed at the 6 acre scrapyard site on the edge of Whixall Moss. During the clean-up operation, over 150 tonnes of tyres were removed, along…
Sphagnum moss
Sphagnum mosses carpet the ground with colour on our marshes, heaths and moors. They play a vital role in the creation of peat bogs: by storing water in their spongy forms, they prevent the decay…