Rockingham Forest
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The amazing colonies of Red Wood Ants in Bedford Purlieus raise many questions. Here's a few answers and more questions! Can you help?

An expedition out west led to the discovery of a little-known Nature Reserve and a woodland SSSI.

All the rich habitat creation carried out by Butterfly Conservation in the winter of 2023-4

Susannah describes work to improve the habitat for a very rare moth in one of Corby's woodland sites

Adam describes a project to sort out which of the apples growing wild in Rockingham Forest are the original 'Forest Apple'.

Growing numbers of deer without natural predators, mean that culling is necessary. Here is a personal account of how it is carried out

Jamie describes the new Butterfly Conservation project: "Threatened Species Recovery for Northamptonshire's Woodlands"

Sam describes the action-packed days he spent with us on his work experience placement in Rockingham Forest

A charcoal-making course and lots of other heavy work in Hugh and Carolyn's woodland

Winter has turned to spring. Coppicing is over but there is still work to do as Carolyn explains in her latest diary entries

The season for reptiles and amphibians started really early this year. Kev Clarke describes a memorable day

Carolyn's picture diary gives a real taste of what it is like living and working their coppiced woodland through the winter

Ann Chinner explains why her Highland Cattle are grazing and enjoying the wood pasture in Southwick Wood

Some of these birds, so familiar now in Rockingham Forest, went back this year to the country that their predecessors came from