Category: Wildlife

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Where the Small Things are

November 9, 2018 / November 9, 2018 by Mara | Leave a Comment

The Shared Earth Trust is a small independent charity which was set up in 1987. The aim was to restore 40 acres of what was once an intensively managed farm with little wildlife into a variety of habitats which are now a haven for wildlife. In fact, over the last year or so we have […]

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The Good, the Bad and the not so Ugly!

June 22, 2018 by Mara | Leave a Comment

A MIXED PICTURE FOR THE BREEDING BIRDS OF DENMARK FARM Guest blogpost written by Ian Morris This year a total of 36 species of bird were detected during a series of surveys. This compares with 39 in 2016 and 45 in 2012. The overall total number of breeding pairs has also declined very slightly over […]

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A little black bee experiment

June 15, 2018 by Mara | Leave a Comment

A special guest blog post by Richard Bambrey What’s That Box? It’s not a funny new kind of bird box! It is in fact a bait box for honeybees that has been put up at Denmark Farm. Why? For many years it has been assumed that the British black bee (Apis mellifera mellifera or AMM) […]

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Environmental Impact

April 19, 2018 / April 18, 2018 by Jon Sayer | 1 Comment on Environmental Impact

A SANCTUARY FOR WILDLIFE This is an article our own Jon Sayer (Trustee, volunteer, biscuit-eater) wrote for Lampeter’s local publication “Grapevine”. Their subject for this May’s edition was “Environmental Impact”.  It would be a shame for all you good people who don’t live in our lovely part of the world to miss out. The words […]

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Meet K(16)2, Denmark Farm’s newest recruit…

February 1, 2018 / February 1, 2018 by Denmark Farm | Leave a Comment

Guest Blog Post by Josie Bridges of The Vincent Wildlife Trust (VWT). I am incredibly pleased that Denmark Farm have agreed to adopt one of our Pine martens, and as one of their closest they have decided upon K(16)2. In the coming months they will be running a competition to give him or her a […]

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