CBBC are working on a new TV series to follow the famous ‘Deadly 60’ show. The new TV show is looking for 8 outstanding children to take on a once in a lifetime challenge. Eight lucky children between the ages of 11 and 14 will be selected to travel to Madagascar to help on conservation… [Continue Reading]

Hundreds of school pupils have taken part in the Growing Schools Project, which aims to plant 1km of native hedgerow in school grounds across Sunderland. The Durham Wildlife Trust project has seen more than 800 metres of crab apple, hazel and holly been planted with the final 200 metres to be completed on the 10th… [Continue Reading]

Cummins Emission Solutions has awarded funding to Durham Wildlife Trust for a new project in Darlington to protect bees.   The project will work with fifteen schools and other community groups in the area, raising awareness of the importance of bees and planting nectar rich plants in school grounds and community green spaces.   Community… [Continue Reading]

April has seen a wide range of summer migrant birds stopping off at Rainton Meadows, but pick of the bunch must be the osprey that was seen over the main lake on 19th April. Ospreys are now successfully rearing young in the North East, so hopefully these magnificent birds will become a more common site when… [Continue Reading]

The latest phase of work to restore some of east Durham’s rarest natural habitats to their original condition has been completed The Action for Raisby Fens Project, managed by the Durham Wildlife Trust and funded by a £4900 grant from The Banks Group, via its Banks Community Fund, focuses on the restoration of neglected fen… [Continue Reading]

The Durham Wildlife Trust Heart of Durham team are proud to announce the arrival of Derek, (named by the project officer’s niece), a very skittish, bouncy and cute highland calf on to a field adjacent to the Millshield picnic site on the edge of Derwent reservoir. The Highland cattle are part of a “flexigraze” scheme,… [Continue Reading]

RESEARCHERS want to find out if decreasing numbers of adders in the North East has led to inbreeding among colonies of the UK’s only venomous snake. The University of Sunderland has teamed up with Durham Wildlife Trust and Durham County Council to carry out a genetic survey of the adder population in geographically isolated areas… [Continue Reading]

With incredibly low spring water levels at Derwent Reservoir water fowl are just specks in the distance, but a new screen erected in late 2011 by volunteers from the Durham Wildlife Trust Heart of Durham project will hopefully provide cover for bird watchers when levels return to normal. Volunteers from Foundation UK, which works across… [Continue Reading]