Wilder Kent Blog

Learn more about the wildlife and wild places in Kent and beyond.

Wilding earth worm
Lauren Heather

The importance of dung

One of the many benefits of using grazing livestock in conservation management is that they produce dung. Their dung acts in various ways to enhance the landscape and provides benefits for a range of organisms that would otherwise be excluded in a machinery-based site management scheme.

Nature Reserves Three flying ants above short grass with a blurred background.
© Jon Hawkins

What is flying ant day & when is it?

Sara Booth-Card, ecologist, peatlands and Action For Insects campaigner at The Wildlife Trusts, looks out for the telltale signs of flying ant days and shares her love for the underground world of ants.