MWT Blogs

Neil Kinley

Blog

Forestry office Lawn

Your Lawn, Your Quilt

Most lawns have wildflowers from daisies to dandelions and clovers. Join the growing trend to to let them flower by giving your mower a rest. It takes on average six weeks for a wildflower to grow…

Oak tree planted in Glen Aldyn

Growing Soil Fertility with Trees

Manx Wildlife Trust are on track to be planting over 10,000 native trees per year to enable nature recovery and sequester carbon. Most of our trees are being planted in areas that will be grazed…

Tree Planting area with rainbow above creg y cowin

Towards a Celtic Rainforest Economy

Manx Wildlife Trust are creating a new temperate (Celtic) rainforest on its largest (105 acre) nature reserve at Creg-Y-Cowin. Once the trees we have planted become established, cows and sheep…

Lawn prawn, wood shrimp, land hopper

The Great Laxey Prawn Invasion

When Isle of Man College lecturer Alan Harrison described lifting up pots and seeing dozens of shrimp-like bugs jumping around, I was pretty sure I knew that Laxey had been invaded by 'Lawn…

Map of Banded Damoiselle

A Dot on a Map

A dot on a map can tell us a story. This dot is special, it tells us that ‘Calopteryx splendens’ was recorded around Douglas in August 2022.
Calopteryx splendens is also known as the '…

A path with Bluebells at Hairpin Woodland Park

On the Beaten Track

We are often told to get off the beaten track to get a more authentic natural experience, but for nature watching you may find that paths are your best option.