2021
SWT Sheep arrive at Liz Williams Butterfly Haven
SWT Sheep arrive at Liz Williams Butterfly Haven

We are delighted to be able to facilitate the Sussex Wildlife Trust's sheep to visit the Liz Williams Butterfly Haven to help maintain the habitat restoration here. Chalk Grass Downland is one of the most biodiverse, but also one of the rarest semi-natural habitats in the UK. It is the…
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Woodland Management at Dorothy Stringer Woods
Woodland Management at Dorothy Stringer Woods

Big Nature was able to support students and their families help manage the Dorothy Stringer Woodland for nature. This involved coppicing some of the Hazel to open up part of the woodland. Various plants and animals take advantage of this opening in the summer. It takes about 10 years for…
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New Fence for Liz Williams Butterfly Haven
New Fence for Liz Williams Butterfly Haven

Following a grant from the Brighton & Hove Communities Fund and working in conjunction with Dorothy Stringer School which also secured funding from The Chapman Charitable Trust and The Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust, we have been able to purchase and install a new stock proof fence for the Liz Williams…
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Friends of the Liz Williams Butterfly Haven
Friends of the Liz Williams Butterfly Haven

Big Nature is delighted that through its work supporting and developing the Liz Williams Butterfly Haven a group of interested like minded people have got together to create the Friends of Liz Williams Butterfly Haven. You can follow what goes on there at LizWilliamsButterflyHaven (@LWButterflyH) / Twitter

2020
Wildflower Lewes and Millennium Seed Bank
Wildflower Lewes and Millennium Seed Bank

We are delighted to have been able to support the work of Wildflower Lewes by supplying 1123 wildflower plugs grown from locally sources seeds by Kew at the Millennium Seed Bank. On a chilly but clear evening in November volunteers we were able to take students from Dorothy Stringer School…
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2019
Nature 2020
Nature 2020

Big Nature is delighted to announce the launch of Nature 2020 - a year long calendar of inspiring events to recognise the end of the International Decade of Biodiversity. Check out Nature 2020 for more information.

Big Nature pushes for celebration to mark end of the UN International Year of Biodiversity
Big Nature pushes for celebration to mark end of the UN International Year of Biodiversity

In 2017 the first discussions were had about doing something to celebrate the then expected International Year of Biodiversity. A group of people from a range of interested groups across the Biosphere got together and started to plan what we could do.

2015
Big Nature in the Biosphere

This event was a great success with a range of groups attending the event in the foyer of the Brighton Centre.

Looking for the Adonis Blue butterfly

One of a series of videos produced to promote interest in the newly established UNESCO Brighton & Lewes Downs Biosphere.