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October 2025 events added
lots of ways at home we can
help to protect our brooks
Regular posts on what to look out for this time of year locally - including our popular
* wild flower of the week *
Ever expanding local nature & wildlife gallery. Submit your photos / artwork here!
Interesting selection of biodiversity, nature and climate news
Local area positive news! 🎉
Wessex Water first in UK to have team of detection dogs to sniff out pollution leaks
Dogs are proving very effective, helping to reduce the amount of pollutants entering rivers and streams.
White storks bred in Cotswolds for reintroduction to UK
Once a familiar sight across the UK before the 16th century, the White Stork Project is aiming to establish at least 50 breeding pairs of storks in southern England by 2030.
Wiltshire Council up 19 percentage points on actions to increase biodiversity
in 2025's 'Council Climate Action Score Cards'. They scored well e.g. for mowing their green spaces less for wildlife, but not well e.g. for banning use of pesticides on council owned and managed land.
Two large bat sensitivity zones to be established between Trowbridge & Westbury
Attempt to compensate for negative effects the increasing numbers of new houses has on bats.
Local 'Wild Waters Festival' in June 2025
a celebration of nature, our waterways, and community (Batheaston to Bradford on Avon).
Net zero farm fund launched by Waitrose & Partners
Grants will be available to farmers and growers supplying the retailer and looking to reduce their environmental footprint. Waitrose aims for 100% of its suppliers to be net zero by 2035.
Bristol hoping to become pollinator captital
To help pollinator insect populations grow - especially hoverflies which are vital for food security - a 43 mile (70km) "bee-line" will be created from Chew Valley, up the east of Bath, to South Gloucestershire.
20 million trees to be planted across Bristol, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Somerset
The Government is to plant a new national forest stretching from the Cotswolds to the Mendips to, "bring nature closer to people, prevent flooding and support wildlife".
Ex-dairy farm in Wiltshire to be turned into RSPB reserve
Over the next 10 years, it should attract chalk-loving wildflowers, bees, butterflies and birds, and improve water quality in River Test
Scheme helping protect Wiltshire's unique chalk streams
Farm at Great Chalfield Manor become climate-resilient food production hub
- "a thriving hub for nature’s recovery and regenerative farming".
3,500 trees planted across Bradford On Avon
See more positive stuff on our Nature News Blog 🙂
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We are very grateful to have been supported with funding from:
Grant for start-up funding from the Wessex Water Foundation Environment Fund. Their Environment Fund supports charitable and community activities across the region that have a positive impact on the local environment.
Grant from The Wildflower Society for 'botanical events for children and young people'. They are a national society for amateur botanists and wild flower lovers in Britain and Ireland who work to promote awareness of wildflowers, especially amoung younsters, as well as to educate about conservation of wildflowers, British flora and the countryside.
See the range of plants and wildlife in Colerne which have been recorded and added so far to the NBN Atlas online database
(lists with map)