We are working hard to bring our wildlife back for good. Including a natural legacy in your Will helps us protect and restore nature....
Community Green Screen
Mat Dove-Jone, our Life Skills Manager, hasn’t let Covid prevent him from reaching out to his volunteers via a 'community green screen' on his phone. ...
Community Grant Scheme – Apply Now!
Tees Valley nature Partnership is offering a Community Grant Scheme to help more people get back to nature and the outdoors....
Cetacean Surveys – Summer 2020
Wilder Coast Officer, Jacky Watson, has been involving people in the North Sea Cetacean Recording Project and conducting a summer of cetacean surveys....
Ambassadogs Roll of Honour
Ambassadogs is a campaign to reduce the disturbance to wading birds along our coastline by encouraging responsible dog ownership. ...
Barn Owls of East Cleveland
Barn owls are declining in number because of habitat loss, agricultural intensification and climate change. Kate Bartram, our East Cleveland Heritage Officer, has been spearheading a project to help reverse that decline. The East Cleveland Nest Box Project has been delivered with the help of landowners and volunteers. Local owl experts Colin and Chris...
Wild Tees Magazine Out Now!
Wild Tees is Tees Valley Wildlife Trust's members magazine. Become a member and get free access to 24 pages of great content, three times a year. ...
Prime Minister: no more neonics!
A pesticide known to kill bees has been authorised for farmers to use on sugar beet crops in England. The deadly neonicotinoid (or neonic), thiamethoxam, was banned EU-wide in 2018 because of the wide-spread harm it causes. We are shocked that the Secretary of State, George Eustice, has used his power to allow this. The decision to allow...
Bad news for bees: Government reverses ban on bee-killing neonicotinoids
The Government has bowed to pressure from the National Farmers Union and agreed to authorise the use of the highly damaging neonicotinoid thiamethoxam for the treatment of sugar beet seed in 2021. The Wildlife Trusts strongly oppose this decision. The Secretary of State, George Eustice, made the decision in response to the potential danger posed from...
Bringing Wildlife Back
Ian Jelley, Director of Living Landscapes for Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, explains why helping nature recover is as essential for us as it is for wildlife. In the modern times we live in, it’s easy to forget just how reliant we are on the natural world. Especially as technology advances, solving life’s challenges and sometimes...
Campaign for a Wilder Future
The natural world is in a critical condition. Let’s put it into recovery. We love the classic story The Wind in the Willows. But since Kenneth Graeme’s beloved characters Toad, Badger, Ratty and Mole were first introduced almost 100 years ago, the UK has become one of the most nature-depleted nations in the world....
The Wildlife Trusts launch £30 million appeal to kickstart nature’s recovery across 30% of land and sea by 2030
Today The Wildlife Trusts launch 30 by 30, a public appeal to raise £30 million to start putting nature into recovery across at least 30% of land and sea by 2030. Nature has suffered serious declines for decades with 26% of UK mammals in danger of disappearing altogether and hedgehogs, red squirrels, bats, turtle...