Balloo Woodland
A stroll through this small but long-established woodland offers a pleasant retreat from the hustle and bustle of Bangor.
A stroll through this small but long-established woodland offers a pleasant retreat from the hustle and bustle of Bangor.
Our woodlands are a key tool in the box when addressing climate change for their carbon storage potential, but are less well known for their potential to limit flooding events, with wet woodlands…
Wet woodlands in the UK can be wild, secretive places. Tangles of trailing creepers, tussocky sedges and lush tall-herbs conceal swampy pools and partially submerged fallen willow trunks, likely…
A haven for wetland wildlife and people in the heart of Bangor.
Balloo Wetland Nature Reserve in Bangor has reopened, following a two-year closure for redevelopment.
Few of us can contemplate having a wood in our back gardens, but just a few metres is enough to establish this mini-habitat!
Meet Ryan Bradley, Nature Reserves Officer at Ulster Wildlife.
Meet Deborah McLaughlin, Bog Meadows Community Engagement Officer
Meet Alexey Janes, Project Coordinator for the the Grassroots Challenge project - Ulster Wildlife's environmental youth development programme
Although introduced by the Normans, the fallow deer has been here so long that it is considered naturalised. Look out for groups of white-spotted deer in woodland glades.