Give our special peatlands a chance
Roisin Grimes, Peatland Officer at Ulster Wildlife, introduces the wonderful world of peatlands, and explains why these precious habitats are worth protecting, as we celebrate International Bog…
Roisin Grimes, Peatland Officer at Ulster Wildlife, introduces the wonderful world of peatlands, and explains why these precious habitats are worth protecting, as we celebrate International Bog…
We are delighted to have teamed up with the Energy Saving Trust Foundation on their new Northern Ireland specific round of the Youth Climate Action Fund, part-funded by Airbnb.
Whether feeding the birds, or sowing a wildflower patch, setting up wildlife areas in your school makes for happier, healthier and more creative children.
When we think of sea anemones, it may conjure up images of tropical warm waters and coral reefs. However you don’t have to travel far to spot one of these amazing animals.
One of the UK’s rarest marine species, this giant of the rocky shore is a very special fish.
Have you ever seen those dark red jelly blobs whilst rockpooling? These incredible creatures are beadlet anemones! They live attached to rocks all around the coast of the UK, the base of their…
Ulster Wildlife is appealing to the public to help with locating new nest sites to safeguard the future of this endangered bird.
As its name suggests, giant hogweed it a large umbellifer with distinctively ridged, hollow stems. An introduced species, it is an invasive weed of riverbanks, where it prevents native species…
The dense, spiky tufts of Marram grass are a familiar sight on our windswept coasts. In fact, its matted roots help to stabilise sand dunes, allowing them to grow up and become colonised by other…
This football-sized fungus can be seen in autumn, sometimes growing on grass verges.
With yellow-and-black bands, the giant horntail looks like a large wasp, but is harmless to us. The female uses her long, stinger-like ovipositor to lay eggs in pine trees, where the larvae then…