With help from our adder specialist John Dickson from The Reptile and Amphibian Group for Somerset, you can learn all about the amazing adders and we will be heading out to see if we can find some. This is a great opportunity to learn a new skill, meet like-minded wildlife Read more…
Join the QLPS and Quantocks Hills National Landscape team to learn about Dormouse Ecology and get involved in some practical dormouse conservation. This is a free training course, there will be an opportunity to sign up for further volunteering opportunities, but this is entirely optional. Morning of talks from: Jem Read more…
Alfoxton Park is a historic parkland at the North-East edge of the Quantock Hills National Landscape, with some amazing ecology. Culturally the estate is important in the Quantock Hills history of poetry. Dorothy and William Wordsworth lived at Alfoxton Park House from 1797 to 1798. Dorothy Wordsworth began her journal Read more…
Ancient and Veteran trees can be found all across the country, and the Quantock Hills are no exception. The Quantock Landscape Partnership Scheme, with our brilliant volunteers, have been searching the hills looking for the most notably old and interesting trees of the Quantocks. So far, we have surveyed at Read more…
The adder is the fastest declining reptile species in Britain. Prior to 2008, records of sightings of adders (Vipera berus) and data on their distribution within the Quantock Hills National Landscape had been sparse, with only 24 records submitted to the Somerset Environmental Record Centre from 2000-2011. From 2011-2015 the Read more…
