Great Holland Pits Nature Reserve
This enchanting nature reserve was once a working gravel pit but for the last 50 years has been transformed into a flourishing wildlife haven
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My haven
I was privileged to be able to be a volunteer at the start of the Skylarks project. It was my way of “pay back” for all the time I had used Skylarks Nature Reserve before Nottinghamshire Wildlife…
Pond Dipping and Open at Gt Holland Pits
A longstanding annual event for families with children to enjoy supervised pond dipping in a variety of the reserve’s ponds.
The Haven Plotlands Museum
The Haven is the last of nearly 200 Plotlands homes that occupied the site now owned by the Essex Wildlife Trust. Owned by the Mills family since it was built in the 1930s, it was still standing when the Wildlife Trust took ownership of the reserve in the 1980s.
Little Haven Nature Reserve
A rich mosaic of woodland, meadows and flower-rich acid grassland that forms an important wildlife corridor in an urban area
Create a pollinator haven in your stable
We've teamed up with Dengie to help you create safe spaces for pollinators to thrive at your stables.
Holland-on-Sea volunteers show how local actions can support wildlife
The Trust is supporting a group of volunteers who are making a difference for wildlife in Holland-on-Sea.
Lowland heath
Heathlands form some of the wildest landscapes in the lowlands, where agriculture and development jostle for space, containing and limiting natural processes. Once considered as waste land of…
Essex Wildlife Trust secures funding to create wetland haven
Essex Wildlife Trust secures over a quarter-of-a-million-pound funding to transform habitat.
A wetland creation to benefit threatened bird species is underway at Blue House Farm nature…
Lowland fen
Water-logged and thick with reeds and robust tall-herbs or tussocky sedges, fens are evocative reminders of the extensive wet wildlands that once covered far more of the lowlands than they do…
Lowland calcareous grassland
Typical of softly rolling pastoral landscapes, the short, aromatic turf of lowland calcareous grassland is flower-rich and humming with insects in the summer. Its long use by humans lends it an…
Lowland meadow and pasture
Generally found as part of lowland farms or nature reserves, these small, flower-rich fields are at their best in midsummer when the plethora of flowers and insects is a delight. Tiny reminders of…