

Taking Wild Patch to scale through collaboration with WildEast
The SYWG Wild Patch project has for a number of years been working to encourage families, community groups and other land owners to start managing their gardens or other spaces to support wildlife. In the predominantly farmed or developed landscape that surrounds some...

A visit from Doris the White Stork
We thought you might like to hear about Doris the stork who took up residence in Rockland St Mary over the summer (much to the excitement of members of South Yare Wildlife Group!) White Storks had been extinct in Britain as breeding birds since 1416, although, as...

On the ‘verge’ of success for nature
Although it might not sound like a particularly fascinating topic, last February I attended a very interesting conference on road verges held just outside Ipswich at Wherstead Park. Hosted by Suffolk Naturalists Society, there was a myriad of speakers from important...

An update on the Chet Valley B-Line
The South Yare Wildlife Group started the ball rolling towards the establishment of a B-Line, or pollinator corridor, along the Chet Valley by organising the Buglife talk at the Poringland Community Centre in March 2019. Paul Hetherington of Buglife dealt with the...