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CommunityMore than 60 people put in over 10,000 hours at Aqueduct Cottage near Cromford, empty since about 1970 and open again as a small museum.
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AnimalsForty chicks have been moved from Rum to Canna, where rats wiped out a colony that once held about 3,000 breeding adults.
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AnimalsA 2024 survey found barbastelles at the Serge Hill Project near Abbots Langley, and keepers of the orchard are adding monitors to learn where the bats roost.
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AnimalsLily Herniman, 18, volunteers three days a week at a north Devon otter sanctuary and was named Countryfile Young Countryside Champion.
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CommunityStaff and the Nature Volunteer Network put native flowers into Fairstead Recreation Ground, a next step after green hay was spread there earlier this year.
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CommunityGeorge Clarke is starting a third season at the world's most southerly post office, on an island with about 1,000 gentoo penguins.
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CommunityAbout 50 black poplars are on record in Oxfordshire. A Swindon-to-Oxford effort wants DNA tests, cuttings, and new trees. The cuttings are not in the ground yet.
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CommunityVolunteers cut rhododendron and cherry laurel from an eight-acre wood near Newbury so light can reach the ground again.
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AnimalsThe Cambridgeshire park said the pups arrived on the night of October 15. Once their sexes are known, visitors will help give them food-inspired names.
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AnimalsCanterbury and Thanet Stringfoot Pigeons trained this month to remove string and hair from city birds without taking them from their flock.
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ScienceA local trust received £65,000 to collect seed from arctic-alpine plants and put it back on the fells with volunteers.
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CommunityTwenty-five volunteers spent more than eight weeks stringing donated bras through Epworth and have raised £3,500 for CoppaFeel.
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CommunityMore than 1,200 people put in new woods, 61 orchards, and 17 micro-forests, an area the county compared to 154 football pitches.
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CommunityA first-year project led by Citizen Zoo and Habitats & Heritage put the rare white-flowered herb back at commons and heaths where it had nearly disappeared.
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ScienceClay jars and stone anchors on a slope near Kekova Island match pottery from roughly when the Great Pyramid was being built.
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AnimalsSediment from Harwich Harbour is going onto banks at Cobmarsh Island and Old Hall Point, habitat for little terns, ringed plovers, and oystercatchers.
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SciencePupils are catching crabs with hook-free lines so University of Portsmouth researchers can identify them and put them in the sea before sediment is taken out of a seafront lake.
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CommunityHull City Council transferred Anlaby Park Community Library to the friends group that took it on in 2014, after the branch had been due to close.
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AnimalsThe family released at Greenford in 2023 now has two young. Londoners ages 4 to 18 can suggest names until December 7.
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AnimalsBirds of Poole Harbour and the National Trust fitted rings to 15 chicks and one adult at three farmland sites, a first ringing visit of its kind for Purbeck.
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CommunityThrough October, Friends of Woodston Library are inviting people of all ages to make seed packets with a hopeful message and give them away.
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AnimalsA pair that settled in the county in 2025 returned and fledged three young from an oak near the River Wye. The nest site is not being published.
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