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Summer progress for Stafford Brooks
A year after works started on the ground, Stafford Brooks sites are progressing.
Charity gears up for summer fun in great British outdoors
Fun-filled summer of wild events planned by Staffordshire Wildlife Trust, including two different ‘playdays.’
Weekend Wildplay at Ladderedge Country Park
Drop in for some outdoor fun with Staffordshire Wildlife Trust!
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Stafford residents and businesses encouraged to get wild
Community groups and businesses in areas of Stafford benefit from Staffordshire Wildlife Trust project
Keeled skimmer
The Keeled skimmer is a dragonfly of heaths and commons with shallow pools. It has a skittish and weak flight, and is on the wing in summer and early autumn.
Trust welcomes news HS2 work will not take place in spring
Staffordshire Wildlife Trust has welcomed news that work to clear an ancient woodland near Lichfield will not begin this spring – a vital time for wildlife – following a review by HS2 Ltd.
Wood warbler
Look for the wood warbler singing from the canopy of oak woodlands in the north and west of the UK. Green above, it has a distinctive, bright yellow throat and eyestripe.
Bad news for bees: Government reverses ban on bee-killing neonicotinoids
The Government has bowed to pressure from the National Farmers Union and agreed to authorise the use of the highly damaging neonicotinoid thiamethoxam for the treatment of sugar beet seed in 2021…
Wild thyme
The delightful fragrance of wild thyme can punctuate a summer walk over a chalk grassland. It forms low-growing mats with dense clusters of purple-pink flowers.
Wild privet
Wild privet is a shrub of hedgerows, woodlands and scrub, but is also a popular garden-hedge plant. It has white flowers in summer and matt-black berries in winter that are very poisonous.