Wall brown
The wall brown or 'wall' gets its name from the fact it rests on any bare surface or wall! It can be found in open, sunny places like sand dunes, old quarries, grasslands and railway…
The wall brown or 'wall' gets its name from the fact it rests on any bare surface or wall! It can be found in open, sunny places like sand dunes, old quarries, grasslands and railway…
The distinctive spiky, or 'bearded', green flower heads of wall barley appear from June to July and are easy to spot in an urban environment as they push their way up through pavements…
Barnsley Main is a rolling green, grassland surrounded by a fringe of woodland that was once the black spoil heap of the Oaks Colliery pit head that still stands on Oaks Lane
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is asking its supporters to respond to a Government consultation by 10th May to ensure wildlife and Local Wildlife Sites are given protection in future planning policy.…
Learn a tradition with its roots in the Iron Age and build your own mini dry stone wall to attract wildlife.
With club-shaped leaflets on its fronds, wall-rue is easy to spot as it grows out of crevices in walls. Plant it in your garden rockery to provide cover for insects.
Pellitory-of-the-wall is a small to medium-sized herb that frequently grows from cracks in old stone walls, pavements, cliffs and banks, and churches and ruins.
Would you like to get stuck into some outdoor conservation work?
Join us for a practical conservation task day of dry stone walling at Chafer Wood Nature Reserve.
Working towards a better connected landscape for wildlife
Seabass is a seafood favourite, appearing on menus throughout the UK. But it's in trouble in UK seas, with much of the seabass we eat imported from European fish farms.
Tansy is an aromatic plant of rough grassland, riverbanks and verges that has button-like, yellow flower heads. It is the main foodplant of the rare Tansy Beetle, now found at only two places in…
Here at Stirley Farm we have a herd of cows who help us to graze our land. Here's an introduction to some of our main characters!