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Vacancy for an Ouse Burn Ecologist
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Vacancy for an Ouse Burn Ecologist

Would you love a job where every day is focused on expanding your wildlife knowledge and inspiring a wider range of people to notice, enjoy and care for wildlife along the Ouse Burn in Newcastle?…

19 December 2025

Ecologist | Gosforth Nature Reserve | Job Advert | Ouse Burn

Wildlife Ways: New Funding To Help Communities and Nature Thrive Together Along the Ouse Burn
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Wildlife Ways: New Funding To Help Communities and Nature Thrive Together Along the Ouse Burn

Communities, wildlife and wellbeing will thrive along the Ouse Burn thanks to support from the Reece Foundation. The Natural History…

17 December 2025

Ouse Burn Way | Wildlife Ways

Deliverers and Mailout Support Volunteers
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Deliverers and Mailout Support Volunteers

Can you help deliver nature to letterboxes across the North East? We’re looking for friendly and energetic volunteers to help with our members’ magazine and mailout….

15 December 2025

Deliverer | Envelope Stuffer

Giving Shorebirds Space
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Giving Shorebirds Space

As winter shorebirds battle to feed and rest on our coast, giving them space has never mattered more. Here’s why space matters and how photographers can help protect the wildlife they love….

12 December 2025

Birds | Citizen Science | Photography | shorebirds

Gosforth Nature Reserve Journal: It’s Triplets for the Otters!
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Gosforth Nature Reserve Journal: It’s Triplets for the Otters!

In this month’s Gosforth Nature Reserve Journal, NHSN naturalist, Christopher Wren, shares his latest footage of the otters, including this years newest cubs!…

28 November 2025

Gosforth Nature Reserve | Invertebrates | Otter

Protected: Celebrating Gosforth’s Wild Web
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Protected: Celebrating Gosforth’s Wild Web

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

24 November 2025

Citizen Science | Gosforth's Wild Web

An embarrassment of riches
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An embarrassment of riches

Library and archive volunteer Alan Hart explores some of the wild and wonderful treasures to be found in a bundle…

29 October 2025

Stories from the archive: “not normal times” for NHSN
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Stories from the archive: “not normal times” for NHSN

Mel Tuckett, Heritage Researcher, introduces our latest blog which explores a difficult period for NHSN, the 1930s and 40s On…

29 October 2025

Conservation Volunteer
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Conservation Volunteer

Can you help us with the practical side of managing Gosforth Nature Reserve? Join our work parties and help support the oldest nature reserve in the North East!…

22 October 2025

conservation volunteer | Volunteer

North East Nature Journal: The Polecat
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North East Nature Journal: The Polecat

This month, NHSN naturalist Chris Wren takes a closer look at one of the North East’s most elusive mammals – the Polecat…

22 October 2025

Chris Wren | Mammals | North East | Polecat

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