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Durham Wildlife Trust's Conservation team are constantly trying to help local wildlife in our area.

They work closely with the public, policy makers and planners, and aim to build up and develop a multi-agency approach to nature conservation.听

A range of public participation surveys enable the Trust to collect and analyse important data about County Durham's wildlife.
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This information is used to inform future conservation activities at many different sites across the region of the needs of the local wildlife and what needs to be done to help protect them for the future.

Losing their homes

Many of the habitat loss is down to degeneration, overexploitation, chemical toxins and pollution.

Diseases, predators and competitors are other threats that need to be addressed to reverse the declines and maintain healthy populations within the countryside, but also in our towns and city's.

DWT Objectives

The main objectives of conservation are to identify population declines that signal fundamental degradation of habitats and ecosystems.

They also aim to identify the causes for these declines and find natural solutions such as habitat conservation which can be used to repair the primary causes of wildlife declines within Low Barns but also across the Durham area.

Although the volunteers have been working hard to keep the area clean and tidy for future visitors, their work is getting harder each day because of people who simply do not care about there local wildlife and use abuse the area.

Norman Brown gets down to some hard work

Volunteering for the Trust

Why volunteer for the trust? Well you can help manage the Low Barns site as well as the Hedleyhope Fell, which has over 200 hectares of heathland to tend to.

They carry out conservation tasks such as footpath maintenance, wildlife surveys and bracken control.

One volunteer helping out here at Low Barnes is Norman Brown, who is 73 years-old and has been helping out the trust for over 3 years.

Craig Best from the trust says: "Norman is one of many volunteers here at Low Barnes and he enjoys the essential conservation tasks in order to keep the area looking nice and clean for everyone to enjoy."

Visitors to the reserve

Bill Sawyier who is retired and Martin aged 8 from Bishop Auckland use the nature reserve every week to watch and take pictures of the wildlife.

Bill says: "I used to come here every day with my wife, and since she died last year I really enjoy coming down here to remember the good times we had and the peace and solitude Low Barns has to offer, along with the fantastic wildlife."

If you would like to help out at the trust, you can contact Craig Best on 01388 488728.

You can see the pictures taken by Bill Sawyier and Martin by clicking on the links in the 'see also' section.