🌿 We’re hiring! 💧 Could you help support the development of a full Cam Catchment Plan & work with partners to improve the health of the River Cam & its chalk streams? 📍 Cambourne, Cambs ⏰ 15 hrs/week | 15-month role 💷 £13.45/hour 📅 Apply by 9am, 26 Oct 👉 www.wildlifebcn.org/jobs/cam-cat...

📣We're looking for 3 new trustees! 🦋 If you’re 18+ passionate about wildlife & have ideas, skills or experience to share, we want to hear from you. 👩‍🎓 Matt became a trustee as a student it’s a great way to support nature & learn new skills. 📝 Apply by 16 Oct: www.wildlifebcn.org/volunteering...

🏃The Great Eastern Run is this weekend! 🦡Team Badger have been preparing...maybe a bit too much... We'd love for them to get to £3k by race day, can you help? 👉 www.justgiving.com/team/run-for...

Thrilled to find the cocoon of a Dinocampus coccinellae (parasitic wasp) being guarded by a parasitised / paralysed 7-spot Ladybird in the garden of @wildlifebcn.org HQ. Only the second time I've seen this!

Diggers start work on restoring wetland over hundreds of acres of fen to create and connect vast area of wildlife habitat - as part of Great Fen vision @wildlifebcn.org www.itv.com/news/2026-10...

🥳We are very excited to see work starting on one of our biggest ever wetland restoration sites. Now, after lots of planning and preparation, the diggers have arrived to turn an area almost the size of Hyde Park into a thriving wetland. Read more here www.wildlifebcn.org/news/work-st...

🍂 October is here! Our teams have plenty of autumn adventures lined up across our three counties. 🍁 Wildlife walks 🐛 Little Bugs 🦉 Owl Pellet Dissection 🐦 Brilliant Birds More to come! 🧵👇

Did you know you can listen to and submit wildlife audio recordings on a website called xeno-canto.org? Our thanks to Andrew Harrop who has started things off at Woodwalton Fen NNR! Have you got any records you could submit? @wildlifebcn.org #birdsong #audiorecording

🏠🌿Cambridge needs homes - and it also need space for nature. We have responded to the Greater Cambridge Local Plan consultation urging planners not to water down commitments to wildlife around the city. Read more here www.wildlifebcn.org/news/wildlif... 📸 Trumpington Meadows

We're delighted to say that the free shuttle bus from Ramsey centre to the Apple and Harvest Fair is running again this year. Thanks to Ramsey Community Bus! Here's the timetable. @wildlifebcn.org #appleandharvestfair #AppleDay #CommunityEvent #FreeEvent #communitysupport

This months header winner is Neil St John with this shot all the team loved, of a bittern and sheep at Summer Leys! The team loved this one as it looks like the sheep is a little shocked to have seen the elusive bittern. Well done Neil.

✅On #GiftAidAwarenessDay, we want to say a BIG THANK YOU to all our donors who #TickTheBox. You help us to help so many more! Every year, charities miss out on £560m in unclaimed Gift Aid tax relief. Help us claim more and do more. #GiftAidAwarenessDay @cfgsocial.bsky.social

Did you know our very own Helen Bailey is in the Great Eastern Run in less that two weeks? And she's raising money, as part of the incredible #TeamBadger, for @wildlifebcn.org. She would dearly love your support! www.justgiving.com/team/run-for... #greateasternrun #fundraising #halfmarathon

We welcomed Sam Carling, MP for North West Cambs, to the Great Fen on Friday. He met our CEO Brian Eversham and Director of Conservation Matt Jackson at the site of our most recent wetland restoration work at New Decoy Farm and learnt about the importance of rewetting this peatland landscape.

😮Not your typical mushroom...

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After a tip-off from a friend, I was pleased to re-find the Striated Bird's-nest fungi at @wildlifebcn.org Old Sulehay Forest. First seen by me late last autumn, it was interesting to see them at an earlier stage, when the fruiting bodies are covered with brownish hairs #figifriends #fungi

We're sharing the power of #paludiculture at the Cambridge Biodiversity & Regenerative Food Festival this Sunday! Free entry. Parker's Piece, Cambridge | Sunday 27th September | 10:30 - 16:00. See you there!

Tales from the Fen return to the Apple and Harvest Fair with another fabulous free workshop, this time lino-printing your own tote bag! There are a limited number of places available so we recommend booking yours ASAP. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/apple-and-... @wildlifebcn.org

👷‍♀️We lowered and enlarged an island at Lilbourne Meadows in Northants in August to benefit wading birds which love muddy edges where they can feed on insect larvae. 🐣Oystercatcher and little ringed plover have bred on the island since it was created.

🪩Disco the highland cow calf born last year in Northants. He's transformed into a moody teen with a spectacular fringe and is looking for love with some of the older females of the herd. 🤞No luck yet but there's plenty of time and lots of work to do on our reserves grazing wildflower meadows.

🦋Some butterflies to remind us of summer... 💛A clouded yellow snapped by Steve Clark at Summer Leys in Northants. 🌷Great Fen conservation officer Jasmin spotted this beautiful wall butterfly recently. 🥰And this summer silver washed fritillaries returned to Oaks Wood in Cambourne - by Nik.

The next thing to prep for our Apple and Harvest Fair is your fancy dress costume! We'd love to see your youngsters dressed as wonderful wildlife, especially to take part in the Harvest Queen parade. In return they get a free lucky dip prize! @wildlifebcn.org

🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ We’re taking on the Great Eastern Run in Peterborough to raise money for local wildlife across Beds, Cambs & Northants! 🌿💚 Every donation helps protect habitats and create a wilder future for nature and people. Support our team: www.justgiving.com/team/run-for...

🌾Pulloxhill Marsh survived. Help us protect it forever. 👉 Donate today at www.wildlifebcn.org/pulloxhill Just a few fields from our Flitwick Moor nature reserve, lies Pulloxhill Marsh. A fragment of ancient countryside that has somehow escaped the impacts of modern agriculture and development.

📸 Could your photo be our next Header Photo of the Month? 🌿 Send us your favourite photo taken on one of our reserves for a chance to feature on our Facebook & Bluesky headers! 📅 Deadline: 20th September 📧 communicationsteam@wildlifebcn.org We can't wait to see your photos!

🦡Ready, Sett, Go! 🏃‍♂️On Brocktober 11th the Wildlife Trust BCN's Team Badger will be taking part in the Great Eastern Run raising funds for nature. 👉Visit the Just Giving page to meet the runners and sponsor them! www.justgiving.com/team/run-for-the-wild

🌿Getting the nature message across to our region's MPs is a vital part of our job. The summer recess is an opportunity to meet elected representatives on reserves & we've been busy showing them the value of conservation & why it needs more support. Read more www.wildlifebcn.org/news/getting...

Could you help shape a wilder future? 🌿 We’re looking for new Trustees to help guide the future of nature across Beds, Cambs & Northants. You don’t need to be a wildlife expert, just passionate about making a difference. 💚 Find out more & apply 👇 www.wildlifebcn.org/volunteering...

Exciting changes are coming to Northamptonshire! 🌿 Our Nene Wetlands Visitor Centre at Rushden Lakes is getting an upgrade, with new exhibits & classroom facilities to help more people of all ages connect with nature. 💚🦫 Read more: www.wildlifebcn.org/news/northan...

Northants visitor centre gets upgrade as Wildlife Trust plans to engage more of the community | Wildlife Trust for Beds Cambs & Northants

A visitor centre will be getting an upgrade as part of changes to Wildlife Trust nature reserves in Northamptonshire.

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Little Bugs is back! 🐛 Join us on Wednesday 7th October for a fun and sociable morning of nature exploration and discovery for pre-school children! Follow the link to the Wildlife Trust BCN events page to book your tickets! www.wildlifebcn.org/events/2026-...

Great day at the @wildlifebcn.org Species and Habitats Workshop run by @brianecambs.bsky.social, good to refresh and link up topics. Plus, some #PanSpeciesListing lifers: ⭐️ Striped Millipede (Ommatoiulus sabulosus) ⭐️ Buzzing Spider (Anyphaena accentuata) - tbc ⭐️ Aphanus rolandri ⭐️ Rubus vestitus