Most lawns have wildflowers from daisies to dandelions and clovers. Join the growing trend to to let them flower by giving your mower a rest. It takes on average six weeks for a wildflower to grow…

Manx Wildlife Trust are on track to be planting over 10,000 native trees per year to enable nature recovery and sequester carbon. Most of our trees are being planted in areas that will be grazed…

Having gone extinct in 1947, the Juniper tree is making a comeback. Our latest planting of 100 junipers along the Mountain Mile follows plantings near Guthrie's memorial in 2016 and 2020.…

Manx Wildlife Trust are creating a new temperate (Celtic) rainforest on its largest (105 acre) nature reserve at Creg-Y-Cowin. Once the trees we have planted become established, cows and sheep…

When Isle of Man College lecturer Alan Harrison described lifting up pots and seeing dozens of shrimp-like bugs jumping around, I was pretty sure I knew that Laxey had been invaded by 'Lawn…

A dot on a map can tell us a story. This dot is special, it tells us that ‘Calopteryx splendens’ was recorded around Douglas in August 2022.
Calopteryx splendens is also known as the '…

We are often told to get off the beaten track to get a more authentic natural experience, but for nature watching you may find that paths are your best option.

The picture below is a Google Earth screenshot of the Colden Valley. The dark dots in the heath above the plantation are young Sitka spruce trees. Self-sown in from plantations, Sitka spruce are…

The illegal felling of the 'Sycamore Gap' tree has put the spotlight on a tree that many have mixed feelings about. On the Isle of Man, sycamore's role is now so important it may…

Temperate rainforest is a woodland with high rainfall and are normally found in the island’s hills. Good rainforests on the Isle of Man include Glen Helen, Tholt-y-Will Glen and Dhoon Glen.
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