The rare Starlet Sea Anemone has been found at a new site in Lincolnshire! The Starlet Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis is a tiny anemone – just 15mm long – that lives in brackish pools along our coast. Until now, it was only known from a handful of sites in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hampshire, Dorset, the Bristol Channel, […]
Anne is our People, Ponds and Water project officer in northern England. Here she describes her summer looking for Tubular Water-dropwort I’ve been very busy these last couple of months searching for Tubular Water-dropwort (Oenanthe fistulosa), a Priority Species for conservation, on sites across the North of England. With the help of the Local Environmental […]
As an organisation, we have a very clear vision of the world we want to pass on to our children and future generations What’s your vision? We’ve joined up with Remember A Charity to help you have your say. When you leave a gift to a charity like Freshwater Habitats Trust in your will, you […]
The Flagship Pond project is providing a unique opportunity to trial new ways of helping some of the most threatened pond and wetland species. At Gallows Bridge Farm in Buckinghamshire we’ve been working with site owners, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) to protect one of the rarest wetland plants in the county. Gallows […]
Freshwater Habitats Trust is working with partners Environment Bank, Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, NatureMetrics and ABSustain to develop a new approach to Great Crested Newt conservation. Natural England announced a couple of years ago that they would be changing the way they recommend protecting Great Created Newts. The new approach focusses on ensuring thriving populations […]
We’re sad to report the death earlier this summer of Mericia Whitfield who was a key member of the original Pond Action team that led to the foundation of the Freshwater Habitats Trust Mericia Whitfield was an outstanding freshwater naturalist with an exceptional talent for invertebrate biology. Without Mericia’s critical contribution in the organisation’s first 15 […]
We’re training up a team of Marsh Clubmoss Species Monitors with Species Recovery Trust to protect this ancient plant Never heard of Marsh Clubmoss? That’s not surprising. It’s only known from about 70 individual sites in the UK. It’s also easy to overlook as ‘just another moss’. But, this small plant isn’t a moss at all. Lycopodiella […]