Essex Wildlife Trust

📢 Exciting news: Bell heather returns to Epping Forest after 50 years 🙌 Tiptree Heath nature reserve is the only place in Essex where bell heather grows - and the only place in the county that you can see all 3 types of heather in one place. Thanks to the careful management of this reserve, we have been able to help Epping Forest in a new trial to restore their historic populations of bell heather. 💚🌸 Our Director of Conservation, Jez Dagley, says: "I think the small, giving to the big - it's a nice touch.” We couldn't agree more and are delighted to be working with City of London Corporation on this project. Read more 👉 https://loom.ly/i5GUE24 📷 Bell heather - Chris Gomersall/2020VISION, photos of planting day - Andrew Wakefield

Thanks to our amazing volunteers for helping our team carry out the annual management work on our lagoon islands at Two Tree Island nature reserve. 👏 Find out more about this work and other updates from the Trust in the latest Conservation Matters blog. 📰 👉 https://loom.ly/HLv7vB8

On Sunday we joined thousands of others on a march along the Thames to Parliament Square, demanding action towards clean rivers, lakes and seas. 📣 #MARCHFORCLEANWATER

Did you know that Fingringhoe Wick Nature Discovery Park in Colchester is Essex Wildlife Trust's first nature reserve? It's always great to be reminded of the diversity of wildlife that this reserve supports, like this osprey, spotted last week. 🦅 If you need a nature fix, this is one of our favourite reserves at this time of year. 💚 📷 Paul Everett #wildlifesighting #conservation #nature

Fantastic Wild Work Day by Olympus UK & Ireland one of our Platinum Investor in Wildlife Corporate Members. Thank you to your HR team for all their hard work helping us achieve a #WilderEssex 🐿️🐝🦇🦔🦡🌳🐦⬛🐜🦭🦋🦉

Bonfire Night reminder from your neighbourhood hedgehogs 🦔👇 ⏰ Construct your bonfire as late as you can 🎇 Carefully move and re-make your bonfire pile on the day 🔥 Light your bonfire from one corner to allow wildlife to escape Please celebrate with wildlife in mind as log and leaf piles are the perfect places for hedgehogs and other wildlife to shelter inside. 💚 Read more: https://loom.ly/MVpm-cM 📽 Stuart Edmunds #BonfireNight #wildlife #hedgehog #conservation

Each season, we run a competition to update our social media banner with a great wildlife photo. Can you help us decide between these amazing submissions? It's a bird special this time! 🌊 Great white egret at Abberton Reservoir - Waldo Ferris 🔥 Firecrest spotted at Warley Place nature reserve - Martin Buckley 🌳 Greenfinch in the garden - Julia Perry Let us know who you think should be this season's winner 🏆 Don't forget, if you've got wildlife photographs to share, our competition is still open until the end of the month! ⏰ Enter now: https://loom.ly/yKaOCNM

As it's Photography Competition time, the Communications Team decided to run a mini-photography competition. We had an array of subjects, from flowers to frogs. Who do you think should be crowned the winner? 👑 If our entries have inspired you, don't forget to submit your own winning wildlife photos to our competition. Closes midnight, 29 November. ⏰ Enter now 👉 https://loom.ly/yKaOCNM

Celebrating Southend-on-Sea City Council's, Gold Investor in Wildlife Corporate Membership of Essex Wildlife Trust, acknowledging their commitment to environmental conservation and wildlife protection. Thank you for helping us all achieve a #WilderEssex and inspiring people to have a lifelong love of nature 🦋 🦔 🌳 🦉 🐸 Enjoy the video kindly filmed and produced by Blatella Films. To read more please click here: https://lnkd.in/dX-EETd8 Alan Richards MRICS Al Norman Jo Gay BSc, MSc, MA, FRSA Murray Tkacziw Lauren Cosson https://lnkd.in/evK-s8Jd

Essex Wildlife Trust ambassador, Andrew Millham, followed our leaf hedgehog blog and created these masterpieces with his Year 3 class at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School in Leigh-on-Sea. 🦔 Andrew said that the children loved going outside and collecting their own leaves, which is why we really like this arts and crafts idea - it gets you outside! We love all of Year 3's hedgehog creations. Don't you think they did a great job? 🍂🍁 If you're looking for ideas this half term why not give this a go? Follow our easy step-by-step guide 👉 https://loom.ly/N1SI_74 #nature #diy #art #wilderlearning #outdoors