Uncategorized

I am almost halfway into the 4th week of Natural Networks in The National Forest and amazed at what I have learnt in such a short period of time. I have been coppicing, felling and thinning trees, clearing vegetation at a ...
Continue reading All about trees continued

Hello one and all... I have not written a blog in a while so this may be a little rough round the edges, but hopefully interesting – maybe some rambling. So starting this traineeship I knew it was going to be a challenge and ...
Continue reading My Natural Networks Bletherings

Hello to all from the beautiful city of York, which is my base for the next 12 months and the focus of my NN project. I am sharing my time between the Conservation and Ecology section of the Design Conservation & ...
Continue reading And only 12 months to do it….!!

  Hello everyone. I’m Richard and I am the most northerly of the Natural Network Trainees. I am based up at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen with the North East Scotland Biodiversity Partnership. My traineeship ...
Continue reading Aboot Aberdeen

Ahoy there! I’m Catherine and I’m the new Natural Networks trainee based in Edinburgh. I’ll be working on the Living Landscape project with the City of Edinburgh Council. The Living Landscape programme involves a wide ...
Continue reading Nature in Your Neighbourhood

Hello everyone! I’m Ruth, and I’m going to be based at the Coleraine TCV office in Co. Londonderry, in the North-East of Northern Ireland. It’s a lovely location, very close to the beautiful North Coast and with loads of ...
Continue reading Life in Coleraine so far

I am having an amazing time as the Natural Networks Trainee here in The National Forest. Blogging is an alien concept to me so please be patient as I battle through my first blog.  Into week three now and I have learnt so ...
Continue reading All about trees…