In my time so far as a Keeping it Wild trainee, I have been lucky enough to be based at Hutchinson's Bank in Croydon. Here we are helping to conserve the rich chalk grassland habitat. There’s…

“Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another” (Maria Sibylla Merian, 1647 – 1717)

Oak trees, of which there are many in the Great North Wood, are host to several species of a fascinating group of plant parasites called gall wasps. These tiny, stingless wasps produce bizarre…

How well can you identify insects? Can you tell the difference between a harlequin and a 7-spot ladybird? The UK is home to over 30,000 different species of invertebrates and London Wildlife Trust…

Reflections on the Award by Keeping it Wild Trainee Jess: From cultural histories layered in landscapes, to Fibonacci sequences found in flowers and pine cones. The questions and wonder provoked…

Our Keeping it Wild Project Trainee Dexter provides some tips on how to get started with your very own wildlife pond, no matter how little space you may have.

Great North Wood project officer Edwin Malins discusses how choices gardeners make can influence a wooded urban landscape. London Wildlife Trust launched the Great North Wood project in 2017,…

Keeping it Wild Trainee Dexter investigates the origins and benefits of Forest Bathing

We’re hard working to give much needed space for London’s magnificent diversity of insects; they help to make the city work. But there’s much more to do if we are to reverse their worrying…

Musings from Keeping it Wild Trainee Dan