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Last week around 100 locals enjoyed a fascinating and inspirational talk by Paul Hetherington from the national wildlife charity, Buglife, which was organised by the South Yare Wildlife Group and Bergh Apton Conservation Trust. Emphasising the dangers facing our...

Carlton Marshes © Kevin Millican (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) The South Yare Wildlife Group recently enjoyed a fascinating talk by Matt Gooch, Broads Sites Manager at Suffolk Wildlife Trust, on the future plans and ambitions for their Carlton Marshes reserve near Carlton...

The headcount was 33 as we left New Inn Hill, Rockland St Mary at 1pm, for our 5.5 mile Winter Wander. We walked via the Hellington & Rockland St Mary Community Reserve crossing the Hellington Beck en route. After Kaarin thieved (collected) beautiful wood blewitt...

At our November meeting, Matt Jones, Living Landscape Officer from the Norfolk Wildlife Trust talked about the Trust’s approach to landscape-scale conservation. In recent years there has been an increasing recognition that our wildlife cannot be adequately...

A great turnout at our Hedgehog event on a sunny Saturday in October half term showed just how much we love hedgehogs! 45 adults and 15 children enjoyed a very informative talk from Shawn Mills of the Attleborough Hedgehog Rescue, who took us through the year in the...

Participants were introduced the underwater world of aquatic invertebrates and plants at Wheatfen on Sunday 23rd September. As ponds are one of the five key Wild Patch habitats, this workshop built upon the pond restoration event held last year. We looked at different...

About 35 of us gathered at the top of New Inn Hill, Rockland St Mary, on a sunny and breezy Saturday afternoon for the four-mile walk. After a brief introduction and Health & Safety talk we set off and wandered along footpaths and quiet lanes around Claxton,...

Norfolk Homes has given the village of Poringland 13 acres of land just behind the Community Centre. The Parish Council has held public consultations on how to use this land and the SWYG has put in two submissions. The first was for a wildlife garden to be included...

With the sun shining and over 200 visitors, the SYWG team had a very successful day at Fair on the Yare in June. Whilst we spread the Wild Patch message, we also learnt how much people know about Pollinators through their participation in our Pollinator Quiz.  We...

On the 22nd March, at 7.30pm, Sue Alderman from the Hare Preservation Trust will be giving a talk about Hares at Bergh Apton Village Hall. Sue is a photographer and a naturalist so it will be an enlightening and interesting talk about a creature that holds a...