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These are a few of our favourite sites. They are categorised, but otherwise not in any particular order. If you would like to have a link to your site here on a 'quid pro quo' basis, please let us know by email.
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Erewash Sound is a local Community radio station, based in Derbyshire. They are now on FM on 96.8 and on the internet as well. Online they have a downloadable media player, so you can listen and love the station at the touch of a button on your start menu ! Just click the logo and listen 24/7 if you're not in the Erewash area!
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The Woodland Trust - The Woodland Trust is the UK's leading conservation charity dedicated to the protection of our native woodland heritage British Butterflies - Steven Cheshire's comprehensive free guide to British butterflies with a plethora of related information and beautifully presented. Well recommended.
Natural England - A great database of plants and creatures in the UK Butterfly Garden - A wonderful site for anyone interested in butterflies and the plants which attract them. Butterfly Conservation - Saving butterflies, moths and their habitats. UK Moths - A terrific guide to the moths of GB and Ireland WhatsThatBug.com - A U.S. site, but a must for anyone interested in bugs and creepy crawlies!
English Country
Garden - This is a catalogue of English
birds, animals,
flowers,
trees and
fungus British wild Flowers - A comprehensive index1 of British wild flowers. Arable Plants - A Field Guide - This website is a fully interactive, searchable version of the book; ARABLE PLANTS - a field guide, published jointly by English Nature and WILDGuides ukwildflowers.com - A wonderful site dedicated to wild flowers of the British Isles. Lavishly index1ed with thumbnails in order to identify flowers. ARKive - This is a huge audio-visual resource of all things natural and images of life on Earth.
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Animalarium - We are a small Zoo in mid-Wales, we like to offer a home to unwanted Zoo animals and exotic pets. Even our African Leopard was a unwanted pet! A great day out.
CHESTER ZOO is the UK’s number one zoo, with over 7000 animals and 400 different species, including some of the most endangered species on the planet. With more than one million visitors every year, the Zoo is an all-year round favourite attraction for kids of all ages!
Awarded ‘Zoo of the Year 2004’ by the Good Britain Guide,
Bristol
Zoo
Gardens has a continuous reputation for excellence,
innovation, and dedication to conservation. It’s the fifth
oldest zoo in the world and the oldest outside of a capital
city, and a
long established major tourist attraction in
Bristol.
Twycross Zoo opened in 1963 on a site in Leicestershire. Initially a comparatively modest collection, it has grown into one of the major British zoos, attracting over 450,000 visitors a year. It is famous for its collection of primates. Situated near the small village of Twycross, the zoo occupies over 40 acres and is set in open countryside. Despite its rural location, it is only four miles from the M42/A42 (which links the M1 and M6) making it readily accessible from anywhere in central England.
This is a great park - the staff are polite, and knowledgeable. The Lemur Walk is amazing - go visit.
This charity rescue is open to the public, is clean, well set out and a delight to visit. Please do support this project.
There are over 200 animals at Dartmoor Zoological Park: from tiny stick insects to Ben our Brown Bear or Solomon our Lion, all set in over 30 acres of beautiful parkland. Discover something different, learn something amazing and help us make tomorrow's world rich in animal life.
Pulborough Brooks, West Sussex. (RSPB) Set in the sheltered Arun valley, in the heart of West Sussex, Pulborough Brooks is a fantastic place for a day out for people of all ages. There is a superb nature reserve and trail with bird watching hides and viewpoints, a visitor area with gift shop and a tearoom with terrace - not to mention the play area! Blackbrook Zoo, Staffordshire. Home to the largest bird collection in the UK, Blackbrook is internationally renowned for it’s achievements in breeding some of the world’s rarest birds. Cricket St Thomas, Somerset: One of our aims is to create environments in which animals can behave as naturally as possible. New exhibits are designed to allow the animals to express natural behaviours seen in the wild. Visit Lemur Wood the UK's biggest walk through lemur exhibit or ride through the Wildlife Valley on the Safari Train. Well worth visiting !! Chestnut Conservation Centre, High Peak, Derbyshire. Our Wildlife Park is unique in the UK because it has Europe's largest groups of multi-specied otters, owls and other indigenous wildlife.
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Geographical covers a wide range of subject areas, including culture, wildlife, exploration and adventure, all illustrated with superb high-quality photography. e-Nature - eNature.com is the web's premier destination for information about the wild animals and plants of the United States. Over past years, eNature has consistently been one of the Internet' most-visited sites for nature and wildlife information and has won numerous awards and accolades. Nature - The World's best science and medicine on your desktop. New Scientist - New Scientist online was launched in 1996 and now carries an archive of over 76,000 content pieces. We have developed our site to include specific channels to cater for our audience's wide variety of interests. The website includes news and features, engaging headlines, fascinating stories and amazing facts, delivered through the latest news slots, in-depth articles, video, blogs and commenting. New Scientist explains why a development is significant as well as putting social and cultural context around it, delivering more insight than any other current affairs or science source. Royal Society - The Royal Society, the national academy of science of the UK and the Commonwealth, is at the cutting edge of scientific progress. We support many top young scientists, engineers and technologists, influence science policy, debate scientific issues with the public and much more. We are an independent, charitable body which derives our authoritative status from over 1400 Fellows and Foreign Members World Science - That's exactly what it is!
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Saysha Baker is a South Africa based photographer in Kwa-Zulu Natal, who produces the most wonderful people images we have seen in a long time. If you want inspiration on how to do it right, here's the place to start. If you are in the PMB area, do give her a call and get some great shots for future memories.
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