Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. We’ve campaigned so long for this! Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now our young people will have a chance to get to know & love the natural world, to feel awe & wonder, & gain skills to protect it 🌷🌳🦡
Long-awaited course to examine human effects on natural world and explore everyday ways to aid biodiversity
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A couple of places still available for my upcoming tour at New Hythe. The Lesser Emperors are on the wing now. www.naturetrek.co.uk/tours/the-dr.... @britishdragonflies.bsky.social #KentDragonflies
The Kent Wildlife Conference is always busy, engaging, exciting - and this year's (on Sat 24 October) will be no different. Subjects include Nightingales, GCNs & Francis Rose's 'lost' Flora of Kent.
You really don't want to miss out. Really.
Full details & booking here: tinyurl.com/WildConf2026
One of the showcase flowers on Dungeness NNR at the moment
Marsh Cinquefoil (Comarum palustre) flowering near the Wigwams, Long Pits, Dungeness
Reappeared after a 30 year absence after some Willow reduction and habitat works
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Out yesterday to recce some sites for @kentfieldclub.bsky.social visits. Nice to find a couple of fairly uncommon insects - the bug Aphanus rolandri on a Low Weald farm & the beetle Platystomos albinus at @kentwildlife.bsky.social's Ironhurst Valley. #KentNature
Join Kent dragonfly recorder, photographer and birder, Marc Heath, in the garden of England, Kent where we will spend our day at New Hythe G...
If you've enjoyed our book about Ranscombe Farm, and want to see the place & the plants face-to-face (or if you haven't got the book, but would like a copy at the bargain price of £9), then why not join the free guided walk with the author on Weds 10 June? Details & booking here tinyurl.com/yc7rtpmn
As it's World Bee Day, you might like to know that Geoff Allen's excellent book on the Bees, Wasps & Ants of Kent is still available from our website www.kentfieldclub.org.uk/bees-wasps-a.... #bees #hymenoptera
An excellent trip, despite rainy interludes, to Hangrove bank near Downe with @kentfieldclub.bsky.social
Walking in Darwin’s footsteps we saw orchids galore, grasshoppers, bugs and a highlight was seeing a small blue butterfly.
It's not every day you get to record in the grounds of a real castle! Yesterday, we were at Allington Castle nr Maidstone finding some interesting plants & invertebrates. Names in alt text. #KentNature
Bonsai Bank, an awesome chalky glade. Ten orchid species seen including hundreds of Lady Orchids, the star species here; Most Ladys were frazzled by the May heatwave but several seen in good flower
