Places are still available on the last Riverfly training course of 2016 which will be held on Saturday 15 October at Digswell (near Welwyn Garden City) in Hertfordshire.

HMWT, the Environment Agency and Queen Mary University London are seeking volunteers who would be interested in being trained to conduct the new Modular River Surveys.

Slimy Wrigglers was featured on page 2 in the Hertfordshire Mercury on 22/09/2016.

Green Sandpiper

A cutting edge bird-tagging project using GPS tags has tracked a green sandpiper, a small wading bird, from Hertfordshire all the way to Norway and back.

Houghton Regis resident Sally has been keeping an eye on the Woodside Link developments and helping to limit the impact they have on local wildlife.

Eel pass

Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust (HMWT) together with support from Environment Agency and the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, has installed two new eel passes in the Lower River Lea to aid eel migration from the River Thames.

River dipping at Lemsford Springs

On September 1st new members of Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust were welcomed to Lemsford Springs nature reserve to explore the underwater world of Hertfordshire's chalk rivers.

Join us for the first River Lea Catchment Conference to find out how the River Lea Catchment Partnership has been working to restore, conserve and enhance the River Lea and its tributaries for people and wildlife.

Volunteers learned valuable river restoration skills at Wild Trout Trust habitat workshops last week, restoring valuable fish habitat in the River Stort in the process. 

An estimated 1,500 people came together over the weekend to celebrate the wildlife of Hertfordshire and Middlesex. Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust, in partnership with The Hertfordshire Natural History Society, hosted the Festival of Wildlife in Tarmac's Panshanger Park.

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