Wild deer on the Isle of Wight FAQs
Q: Are there any wild deer on the Isle of Wight? A: Yes, deer of various species have been seen in many parts of the island Q: Are deer native to the Isle...
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Category: Environment
UK Orca Watch event 2019
With Orca Watch just days away the staff of the Sea Watch Foundation is waiting in anticipation to start conducting watches and collect records of the orcas passing through the Pentland Firth. Three...
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Help our puffins: join the RSPB’s Puffarazzi
RSPB’s innovative citizen science photography project returns The RSPB’s ground-breaking project Puffarazzi is back and once again needs the public’s help to find out more about one of our best loved seabirds. As...
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Diminishing Dawn Chorus
The tent filled with a pre-dawn light. That cool blue that’s just light enough to encourage you to open your eyes. The type of light that my usual thick curtains shut out. It...
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Female warblers live longer when they have help raising offspring
By David Richardson, University of East Anglia and Martijn Hammers, University of Groningen Death is, unfortunately, an inevitable consequence of life. In most animals growing old is accompanied by progressive deterioration in health...
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Details of the Deposit Return Scheme coming to Scotland
Yesterday Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform, Roseanna Cunningham MSP outlined the governments plans for the new deposit return scheme coming to Scotland. For the last few years campaigns such...
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Dawn Chorus In A Yorkshire Wood
It’s 4.42am on a Sunday morning in May, it’s 3 degrees Celsius and I’m strapping on my head torch before plunging into a West Yorkshire wood. I’ve explored these footpaths hundreds of times...
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The National Trust Is Planning To Plant 78 Traditional Orchards Across The Country
The traditional orchard has seen a large decline in numbers over the years, and the National Trust want to change this. As a part of the Wildlife and Nature strategy released in 2015...
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Wild Suburbia
Totton Wedged in between Southampton and the New Forest is the little suburban village of Totton. It’s more of a place you drive through than a destination location. Aside from it’s handful of...
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A Brief History of Isle of Wight Deer
The early ancestors of deer were found on the island* during the Oligocene epoch around 25 million years ago and resembled modern day Muntjac deer. Prior to the last Ice Age Red, Fallow...
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