Great Fen

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The Great Fen project is one of the most exciting habitat restoration projects ever undertaken in Britain. It will create a 3,700 hectare wetland. www.greatfen.org.uk

Close-up of an Emperor dragonfly clasping a reed leaf with dark brown legs, with a small brown beetle in their jaws. The dragonfly is shiny green and yellow, in focus against a blurry background of green leaves.
Screenshot of an email newsletter from Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants The Great Fen. Image of the wooden tiny house with information boards and a ha ndmadecape on a stand. Text reads 'An Update from the Great Fen. What an exciting time in the Fen! Purple Emperor butterflies are back at Woodwalton Fen and glow-worms are lighting up the night at New Decoy. We have welcomed our first Monitoring trainees and our second set of Peatland Progress trainees with the Communities and Education team. Our thanks to PaluWise and the National Lottery Heritage Fund respectively for their support of these roles. We are also recruiting for a...'
Video titled Wild in the Woods Day Camp in the Great Fen. It scrolls through images of primary-age children playing in the woods, swinging from trees, holding sticks, climbing trees, using hand tools, dens and campfires, looking for wildlife. Headings read Learn new skills, Connect with nature, Make new friends.
Video titled Wild in the Woods Day Camp in the Great Fen. It scrolls through images of primary-age children playing in the woods, swinging from trees, holding sticks, climbing trees, using hand tools, dens and campfires, looking for wildlife. Headings read Learn new skills, Connect with nature, Make new friends.
The Big Green Day poster. A cartoon/claymation-type hand holds a 3D globe designed to look like a lightbulb. Speechbubble says Free, just drop in. Text reads Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery. Celebrate green living in Peterborough, Sat 18 July, 10am-4pm. Discover how local organisations are helping to tackle climate change • Join our Big Green LEGO® Party and take on the Green City Challenge • Meet local groups including PECT, Landyke Trust and Peterborough City Council’s Recycling Team Peterboroughmuseum.org.uk under a purple outline of the museum building
Jake is lying on his stomach on grass looking to camera. We see his head and shoulders. He is with a small white dog.
Aimee stands smiling in a river, water reaching halfway up her wellies. She holds a long-handled net in both hands. We can see the river bank on the far side with grass and trees.
Aimee and Jake stand inside a wooden domes structure outside in a nature reserve. They smile to camera and lean on a half-height wall panel made of woven hazel and willow. Aimee wears a grey Wildlife Trust tshirt and Jake's is black. Jake also has sunglasses and a cream panama hat.
A dozen adults, mostly dressed in cool blues and khakis, sun hats and sunglasses, stand in front of a wooden thatched bungalow raised on concrete stilts. They're in a sunny nature reserve
Alison and Helen stand beside a giant sign reading Groundswell. The letters stand shoulder-height on grass. In the background are many white pointed tents for trade stands at the event. The sky is blue and sunny. They wear sunglasses and T-shirts.
a female glow-worm glowing in the dark, climbing a grass stem.
A man freewheeling side saddle on a bike and a woman riding a bike, through a field on a sunny day, wearing summery clothes. Speech bubble calls out 'Hurry up darling, Echoes of Change is starting soon and we don't want to miss it!'
Fraser films dancers on a camera on a handheld mount
A large blue-black beetle with a horn on a piece of deadwood
Montage of photos of Catherine volunteering and a wildlife garden
A montage of short video clips of various bees eating or in burrows or flying
A birch sawfly perched on a black parabolic microphone dish
Bags of a specialised wet meadow seed mix from Emorsgate Seeds being poured into an agricultural drone from AutoSpray Solutions - Holly Wilkinson
Water-filled channels dug into green peaty fields under blue sky
A very small ~2mm spherical black beetle with white tipped antennae crawls through moss
Screenshot of a email newsletter, image of two teen boys looking at a great crested newt.
Closeup of yellow cowslip flowers
A collection of short clips filming a projector screen displaying microorganisms under a microscope
A wren held between fingers. Credit: Tom Marshall
Camera pans in a circle around a nature reserve with blue skies
Front cover of The Fens magazine, featuring photo of an elephant hawk moth on foxglove