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Largest ever badger cull authorised this autumn – bringing the total shot to 35% of UK’s badger population.

The Local Nature Reserve known as Birch Road Pond, in Ellesmere, has been under water for the past two years, but water has receded enough for repairs to the broken boardwalk to be made and the…

Fears the badger cull will be expanded and vaccinated badgers will be shot despite Government commitment to move away from lethal control.
The Wildlife Trusts are deeply concerned that…

Shropshire Wildlife Trust’s Hedgehog Officer is urging housebuilders and individuals to do their bit to help one of the UK’s most endangered mammals, the hedgehog, by choosing fencing panels with…

Shropshire Wildlife Trust has teamed up with the Town Councils of Shrewsbury and Bridgnorth, the National Trust, Historic England, Telford and Wrekin Council and Shropshire Council to improve over…

Our summer skies are ringing with the calls of swifts. Numbers build up from the time they first arrive, usually in early May, with waves of younger adult birds arriving later.

Along with other Wildlife Trusts across the country we are asking the public to love and look after wildlife and wild places.

Grassland outside Oswestry Police Station has grown into a beautiful wildflower meadow.

Several people have contacted Shropshire Wildlife Trust, distressed about local roadside verges and parts of green space being sprayed with herbicide by local council operatives.

Following the guidelines announced by government on 16th March 2020, we have adapted our work behaviour and will continue to do so for the immediate future.