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A Really Wild Christmas
Pupils at Broughton Moor School are celebrating this week after one of their classmates won Cumbria Wildlife Trust's 2007 Christmas Card Competition. Jake Iceton, eleven produced a skillful design of a hedgehog delivering Christmas presents. More

Water, water everywhere…
Bittern, marsh harrier, bearded tit and reed warbler are just a few of the wetland birds that will flock to a new reedbed being created at Cumbria Wildlife Trust's Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve. Cumbria's biggest conservation charity is transforming 17 hectares of farmland into a wet wonderland of common reed, reed canary grass and yellow iris. More

Cumbrian Bog Features on Alan Titchmarsh Series (14 Nov)
Don't miss Alan Titchmarsh's BBC programme The Nature of Britain on Wednesday 21 November, 9pm, to see one of England's rare habitats on your doorstep. Cumbria Wildlife Trust's Drumburgh Moss National Nature Reserve, near Drumburgh village, is explored by presenter Matt Baker as part of the 'Where You Live' feature. More

Prickly Heat - Hedgehogs in a Hot Spot (26 Oct)
WHIZZ, BANG, CRACKLE! It's time to light those fireworks again. But as you plan your bonfire night Cumbria Wildlife Trust is calling on everyone to ensure that hedgehogs are not harmed during your bonfire day celebrations and have drawn up a set of guidelines to help. More

Ten years of science swept away (25 Oct)
Sir David King's report on bovine TB in cattle and badgers sweeps away 10 years of science, say Cumbria Wildlife Trust. More

Don't leave the future to chance (15 Oct)
Will for Wildlife Week (20-27 Oct) seeks to secure a living legacy for future generations
Wildlife is like music: you don't need to know anything about it to enjoy it. But the more you know, the more you tend to enjoy. Both evoke fond childhood memories, so imagine if future generations didn't get the opportunity to share the same experiences. More

Get in touch with your wild side! (11 Oct)
- during Wild Week (22-28 October), in association with BBC's Breathing Places
Looking forward to watching Autumnwatch but want to experience the real thing? Why not slip off the sofa, get involved and 'Do One Thing' for the environment, as part of Wild Week (22-28 October). In association with BBC Breathing Places, The Wildlife Trusts and BTCV are encouraging everyone to get outdoors and get in touch with their 'wild' side. More

Urgent - Help needed to inspire the next generation (14 September)
Mini monsters, tree secrets and jungles on your doorstep could all be the subjects inspiring your children or grandchildren to love the natural world around them. Teaching the next generation about the camouflage used by bugs, the life cycle of a tree or the importance of wildlife gardening could be the only way to inspire school children to care about their environment. But wildlife and countryside education in Cumbria's schools is under threat as grant funding comes to an end. More

Cumbria Wildlife Trust releases new carbon footprint report (30 August)
Protecting Cumbria's peat bogs and woodlands is not only good for wildlife but also reduces the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. That's the message in a new carbon footprint report for Cumbria Wildlife Trust, which shows that its carbon footprint is minus 3,850 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. More

Get a breath of fresh air at Clints Quarry Nature Reserve (22 August)
Cumbria Wildlife Trust is celebrating the news that it has been awarded £10,000 from the Big Lottery Fund's Breathing Places grants programme for improvements to its Clints Quarry Nature Reserve. The money will pay for improvements to the paths, benches, a bike rack, fencing, information boards as well as essential management to benefit the wildlife found there. More

Trust celebrates a good grounding of wildlife at Cumbria's schools (13 August)
Wildlife is thriving in schools across Cumbria thanks to a team of experts from Cumbria Wildlife Trust's Grounds for Wildlife project. The Trust is celebrating the end of the project this month with St Paul's CE Junior School, Barrow in Furness, Inglewood Community Primary School, Carlisle, St Gregory's Catholic Primary School, and Ghyllside Primary School, Kendal, among others. More

It's official - we do like to be beside the seaside! (10 August)
Whether it's somewhere to enjoy the holidays or a resource for the food we eat, the results of a survey by The Wildlife Trusts show just how much we have come to depend on our marine environment. More

Trust pays tribute to former Chairman (8 August)
Cumbria Wildlife Trust pays tribute to former Chairman Dennis Nelson of Windermere who died recently aged 79. More

Operation vole gets underway (30 July)
Over one hundred nationally rare water voles that were bred in captivity have been released at the Ministry of Defence Training Estate at Warcop, near Brough. More

A Gift of Wildlife (9 June)
A gift to Cumbria Wildlife Trust in the will of Trust member, Helen Wilson, has been a catalyst to begin a new wildlife project to look after Cumbria's churchyards and other sacred places used for worship and retreat. More

Wallow in a Wealth of Wildlife
- during Wildlife Week 2007, 2-10 June, in association with BBC's Breathing Places (29 May)
As the nation settles down to sample Springwatch on the BBC, Cumbria Wildlife Trust is encouraging everyone to slip off the sofa and get involved with wildlife in their local patch, as part Wildlife Week. More

Cumbria Wildlife Trust Celebrates 45 Years (18 May)
Staff at Cumbria Wildlife Trust are celebrating the conservation charity's 45th birthday this month (May). The organisation was formed to protect the wildlife of Westmorland, Cumberland and Lancashire north of the sands and was known as The Lake District Naturalist's Trust. The Trust has grown from one nature reserve in 1962 to 42 nature reserves, 15,000 members and 35 staff in 2007. More