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Wildlife: Speckled woods are insect sun-seekers
"The sights and sounds of the woodland are exhilarating and peaceful at the same time"
Lancashire Wildlife Trust
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Wildlife: Time to flood dirty polluters with penalties
"Surely, we don’t have to share our rubbish with everything else that inhabits our planet?"
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Wildlife: Could there be endangered water voles in Bolton?
Best known as Ratty from the Wind in the Willows (Ratty is actually a water vole, not a common or garden rat), these lovely little mammals are in trouble
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Wildlife: Don’t forget, wildlife is still in trouble
"In 2022, we face the prospects of people suffering real hardship as inflation rockets, but we are not alone in a fight for survival"
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Wildlife: Finding my small space for nature
"The Wilder Youth group’s campaign aims to get as many people as possible to pledge to care for their own small space or spaces"
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Wildlife: Trying to remember the trees I have met
"Being in a deep woodland really stirs your soul, particularly when you are among ancient trees"
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Wildlife: Wonderful things come in small packages
"It’s an absolute delight to see our small birds tweeting around"
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Wildlife: Spotting common orchids
Now is the best time to see them in your local meadow.
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Wildlife: Detective work to identify a moth
Alan Wright from Lancashire Wildlife Trust goes nature-spotting.
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Wildlife: Manchester’s wildest festival
"You don’t have to dig deep to realise the rare wildlife we have in Manchester"
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Wildlife: Badgers find calm in railway strike
"Railway lines are ideal and mainly safe corridors for our beautiful bigger mammals to move around in peace"
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Wildlife: Mobbed by tadpoles, amazed by frogs
"We are so lucky to be able to watch as frogs go from spawn, to froglets to fully grown adults"