Living Landscapes
The Trust's landscape-scale conservation efforts
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Wilder Landscapes
Are you a farmer or landowner that wants to work with nature? Find expert advice on helping wildlife and habitats to thrive.
Living Rivers
Hertfordshire contains 10% of the world's chalk streams and the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust spend a lot of their time and budget to try and protect these. You can help too! Whether you are a funder, an individual living near a chalk stream or a business...
Living Rivers
Within Hertfordshire and Middlesex, over 600km of intertwining rivers, streams, brooks and canals flow across the landscape; connecting people, places and most importantly natural spaces for…
The Living Deadwood
Discover the remarkable biodiversity that thrives in rotting wood!
Colne Valley - A landscape on the edge
This Rivers and Wetlands Project is a partnership project that includes conserving water voles and managing the many fisheries across the Colne Valley for conservation.
The Largest Landscape Creation Project in Over a Decade
A transformative project has created a rare and diverse habitat for wildlife at Hilfield Park Reservoir Nature Reserve in Hertfordshire.
Great diving beetle
The Great diving beetle is a large and voracious predator of ponds and slow-moving waterways. Blackish-green in colour, it can be spotted coming to the surface to replenish the air supply it…
Biting stonecrop
Also known as 'Goldmoss' due to its dense, low-growing nature and yellow flowers, Biting stonecrop can be seen on well-drained ground like sand dunes, shingle, grasslands, walls and…
Tawny mining bee
The Tawny mining bee is a furry, gingery bee that can often be seen in parks and gardens during the springtime. Look for a volcano-like mound of earth in the lawn that marks the entrance to its…
How to identify diving ducks
Learn how to tell your pochard from your goldeneneye.
Ashy mining bee
This black and grey solitary bee takes to the wing in spring, when it can be seen buzzing around burrows in open ground.