Rocky habitat
Rocky habitats are some of the most natural and untouched places in the UK. Often high up in the hills and hard to reach, they are havens for some of our rarest wildlife.
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Protecting one of the world's rarest habitats: lowland heath
We’ve lost approximately 80 per cent of our lowland heath in Britain over just the last 200 years.
We chatted with our West Cornwall Reserves Manager, Nick Marriott, to find out about our…
Woodland
Woodlands are magical places, full of wildlife and full of history. Great spotted woodpeckers, nuthatches and jays flit between trees as butterflies dance in sunny glades. Badgers forage through…
Maerl: a hidden and precious habitat
Diving over a maerl bed is best described as like flying over a shagpile carpet made up of purple twiglets! It is an incredible sight. A huge diversity of fascinating marine creatures live in and…
Wet woodland
Wet woodlands in the UK can be wild, secretive places. Tangles of trailing creepers, tussocky sedges and lush tall-herbs conceal swampy pools and partially submerged fallen willow trunks, likely…
How to make a woodland edge garden for wildlife
Few of us can contemplate having a wood in our back gardens, but just a few metres is enough to establish this mini-habitat!
The woodland drummers
Meet the dawn chorus’s percussion section…
Biodiversity Net Gain at Cornwall Wildlife Trust (BNG)
Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) services from Cornwall Wildlife Trust — expert support to help developers and landowners deliver measurable gains for nature.
Ancient Woodland Inventory (AWI) Update Project
The Ancient Woodland Inventory (AWI) aims to identify woodland and wood pasture that has been continuously present for the last 400 years (since 1600).
Habitats
Discover more about the UK's amazing natural habitats and the wildlife that live there. From peat bogs and caves, to woodlands and meadows!
Soaring declines: Cornwall's woodland birds face extinction
Something serious is happening in our woods. Discover some of the most threatened species and how you can help woodland birds to thrive in Cornwall once again.
Historic estate and bluebell woodland begins Trust Open Gardens
The garden at the historic Coldrenick House in Menheniot is the first of 12 opening this year in aid of Cornwall Wildlife Trust. Highlights will undoubtedly be the bluebell woodland, magnolias and…