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Practical tips for cross-cultural communication
Helpful hints when you are working with people from diverse cultural backgrounds. It's useful to know that people from around the world have different ways of being polite.
Practical conservation with Tilgate Youth Rangers
The group have sown wildflower beds, created beetle banks, planted and laid a hedge and much more.
ASDA Community Volunteering
One of our project officers, Mandy Bell, talks about the experience leading the ASDA volunteers around one of the Healing Nature project sites, Colliery Wood, Boldon. Mandy explains below what all…
Dog Walking on Wildlife Trust Nature Reserves
Durham Wildlife Trust manages 37+ nature reserves for the benefit of wildlife. All are regularly visited by wildlife enthusiasts, including children and school groups.
We have a ‘dogs on…
New volunteering groups for Gateshead volunteers
Green Connections sessions will bring people together to help wildlife in the Gateshead area
Our Ocean, Our Future, Our Responsibility
Head of Marine Conservation, Ruth Williams, explains what the United Nations Ocean Conference is, and what happened there
Schools get stuck in to River Wear litter survey
In the last few weeks local schools have been getting involved with our River Wear Plastics Project.
Young Green Leaders Practice What They Preach
Durham Wildlife Trust has been awarded a grant to further develop its tree-planting at a new County Durham wood and a group of local schoolchildren helped mark its third anniversary.
Get the drop on COP
COP26 is nearly upon us, having been delayed from 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. You may have heard it referenced in the news or even in passing on the street, but the name gives little away.…
Our work for wildlife
Our conservation work aims to deliver a richer environment for wildlife and local communities.
Coppicing – a part of our heritage and good woodland management
Coppicing is a traditional woodland management technique. In this blog, Reserves Manager, Andy Wadds, explains what it is and why we use coppicing in our nature reserves.