By Jeremy Biggs. A recent Twitter thread here prompted some discussion about what kind of landscapes make for good quality freshwaters. I promised a few more thoughts that needed a bit more than 280 characters… A recent Twitter thread here prompted some discussion about what kind of landscapes make for good quality freshwaters. So my […]
As our People, Ponds and Water project draws to a close, there a few people we’d like to mention… There’s a reason why ‘people’ is the first word in the People, Ponds and Water project name – our ethos all along has been that the best way to protect freshwater habitats is to increase people’s enjoyment, […]
Since our first visit to the ponds at Burham Beeches, there have been worrying changes to one of the UK’s finest ponds Burnham Beeches is a wonderful woodland nature reserve in Buckinghamshire. It is recognized and celebrated for its Beech and Oak wood pasture. It also supports some great ponds and their freshwater wildlife. We […]
We first introduced the Flagship Pond site Brown Moss in Shropshire, exactly two years ago. Since then so much has happened at this wonderful site, we thought it was time for a little update The last few years have marked a significant change in the way Brown Moss is managed by owners Shropshire County Council, […]
It’s a special year for us… Back in the mid-eighties Jeremy Biggs joined a fish consultancy in Oxford, run by Anne Powell and Roger Sweeting. Together they dreamed of doing something for nature conservation, and began to cast their net over the freshwater world to look for likely candidates. Ponds were an obvious starting place […]
Suffolk has a new Important Stonewort Area: Grove Farm in the Black Bourne Valley. Suffolk Wildlife Trust’s Farm Advisor, Juliet Hawkins explains how the Flagship Pond project has been helping to secure a future for the rare Tassel stonewort Suffolk Wildlife Trust’s Grove Farm Nature Reserve initially covered 62ha of mixed arable, woodland and marshland […]
When most water in the landscape is polluted, it’s great to find places like gravel pit lakes and ponds can offer a clean-water refuge for wildlife This year we teamed up with the Mineral Products Association to carry out a Quarry WaterBlitz – a survey of nutrient pollution on mineral sites. What we found is […]