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We are the Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants. Caring for nature reserves, inspiring people to love wildlife and making our three counties wilder. Join us! www.wildlifebcn.org/join
@wildlifebcn.org🌿 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
@wildlifebcn.org📣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...
@wildlifebcn.org🏃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...
@meganshersby.bsky.socialReposted by @wildlifebcn.orgThrilled 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!
@emilybeament.bsky.socialReposted by @wildlifebcn.orgDiggers 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...
@wildlifebcn.org💚The National Lottery and our generous members and supporters helped us buy Speechly's Farm three years ago.
@wildlifebcn.org🥳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...
@wildlifebcn.orgFancy joining us this October? 🦔🍁
From autumn walks and wildlife discoveries to spooky seasonal fun, there’s something for everyone!
See all our October events & book your place 👇
www.wildlifebcn.org/events
@wildlifebcn.org🎃 There’s plenty more October fun! 🌿 Nature Girls 🔥 Family bushcraft 🎃 Halloween activities 🌱 Eco gardening 🌳 Woodland adventures Plus lots more ways to get outdoors and connect with nature! 🍂
@wildlifebcn.org🍂 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! 🧵👇
@greatfen.org.ukReposted by @wildlifebcn.orgDid 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?
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#birdsong #audiorecording
@wildlifebcn.org🏠🌿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
@greatfen.org.ukReposted by @wildlifebcn.orgWe'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
@wildlifebcn.orgThis 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.
@wildlifebcn.org✅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
@greatfen.org.ukReposted by @wildlifebcn.orgDid 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
@wildlifebcn.orgWe 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.
@wildlifebcn.org😮Not your typical mushroom...
@greatfen.org.ukReposted by @wildlifebcn.orgWe'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!
@greatfen.org.ukReposted by @wildlifebcn.orgTales 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-...
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