Botanist volunteers
Use your botany skills to help us assess the condition of our nature reserves this summer.
Use your botany skills to help us assess the condition of our nature reserves this summer.
The bottlenose dolphins in our waters are the biggest of their kind – they need to be able to cope with our chilly waters!
The Welsh poppy is a plant of damp and shady places, roadsides and hillsides. It is also a garden escapee. It flowers over summer, attracting nectar-loving insects.
Have you ever seen those dark red jelly blobs whilst rockpooling? These incredible creatures are beadlet anemones! They live attached to rocks all around the coast of the UK, the base of their…
The herring gull is the typical 'seagull' of our seaside resorts, though our coastal populations have declined in recent decades.
Although they might not look it, sea cucumbers like this one belong to the Echinoderm group and are therefore closely related to starfish and sea urchins
The river lamprey is a primitive, jawless fish, with a round, sucker-mouth which it uses to attach to other fish to feed from them. Adults live in the sea and return to freshwater to spawn.
Sand eels are a hugely important part of our marine ecosystem. In fact, the fledgling success of our breeding seabirds entirely depends on them.