Category Archives: Uncategorized

Cricket returned last month, the first recreational sport to start up again after lockdown…. what an opportunity to visit some of the county’s loveliest cricket grounds.

East Anglia is renowned for many things but few people will know it can lay claim to being the farm pond capital of England and Wales.

A visit to see the badgers at Fingringhoe Wick in Essex is a joy for any nature lover but in many places in the UK the animal’s future is less than certain.

There are 106 Roadside Nature Reserves in Suffolk – remnants of the meadows of yesteryear and increasingly important havens for rare plants and corridors for wildlife.

Efforts to plant and nurture wild flower areas across Ipswich’s open spaces have been rewarded with a riot of colour and insects aplenty, especially at Landseer Park.

A close encounter with Vulpes vulpes in Suffolk’s county town….and tales of Ursus americanus.

No-one knows when the next tree disease like ash dieback will arise but a team of volunteers in Suffolk are collecting seeds from native species as an insurance policy.

Hugh Somerleyton is overseeing an ambitious rewilding project on his estate but the real prize is a region-wide collaboration of landowners all working for nature.

The semi-aquatic rodent has been reintroduced as part of a pioneering rewilding and flood management project.

While most of us are tucked up in the warm at this time of year, others are out in the wet and wind helping amphibians return to their spawning grounds to breed.