A poignant summary on our grassland & heathland habitats from #HertfordshireStateOfNature at #HNHS AGM this morning, reiterating the huge importance of #conservationgrazing Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust HNHS & Herts Bird Club

Congratulations Phil Attewell, county recorder for ants and this year's winner of the HNHS 1875 Award for an outstanding Hertfordshire naturalist! hnhs.org/hnhs-1875-awar…

Congratulations Steve Blake, helping protect Tree Sparrows at Tyttenhanger and a key contributor to Herts Bird Club. He is winner of this year's HNHS 1875 Award for an outstanding contribution to natural history in Hertfordshire. hnhs.org/hnhs-1875-awar…

Delighted to announce that the '1875 Award' for an outstanding Herts naturalist will be the 'Trevor James Award' from next year. Just one way HNHS plans to commemorate our amazing plants and beetles recorder of 40 years who sadly died in June.

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Female Yellow-headed Woodwasp (Urocerus augur) new to Hertfordshire and nationally the first to be recorded laying eggs. Found and photographed by Phil Attewell near Radlett in August. hnhs.org/news/yellow-he…

Congratulations to Dr Stuart Warrington on becoming first winner of our re-named Trevor James Award for an outstanding Hertfordshire naturalist! Welwyn Hatfield Times Herts Live hnhs.org/news/hnhs-hono…

Congratulations to Bob Reed on winning our prestigious 1875 Award for an outstanding contributor to Hertfordshire natural history! StortfordIndependent Herts Live hnhs.org/news/hnhs-hono…

Thank you speakers Josh Kalms, Roy Woodward and Chantal Helm for making HNHS's online annual meeting a success. Thanks also everyone who attended. Read about it: hnhs.org/news/annual-me…

HNHS has objected to the proposed 6,000-home 'Bowmans Cross' development near Tyttenhanger gravel pits. It threatens the last known colony of Tree Sparrows in SE England and other rare and protected species. hnhs.org/news/hnhs-form… Save Tyttenhanger! Hertsmere BC Patrick O'Borski

A nice piece about Bob Reed, winner of this year's HNHS 1875 Award for an outstanding contribution to Herts natural history, in the latest StortfordIndependent bishopsstortfordindependent.co.uk/news/i-want-pe…

A hundred million years of life in Hertfordshire! Don't miss county geology expert Haydon Bailey giving the online Gerald Salisbury Memorial Lecture. 8pm Wednesday 23 February. hnhs.org/news/hundred-m…

The ancestors of modern sharks swam the seas above Hertfordshire 50 million years ago! One of many insights provided by chalk geology expert Haydon Bailey in his excellent Gerald Salisbury Memorial Lecture this week. hnhs.org/news/living-he…

Breeding Peregrines and thieving ducks! Don't miss the online Herts Bird Conference on Saturday 19 March (10.30am - 1pm). hnhs.org/news/breeding-… Photo: ©Barry Trevis

2022 Herts Bird Conference online tomorrow morning (10.30am to 1pm, 19 March). Don't miss out! hnhs.org/news/breeding-…

Attention HNHS and Herts Bird Club members: it's nominations time for the annual awards! hnhs.org/news/2022-hnhs…

Has Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly (photo © Barry Reed) become the latest dragonfly species to breed in Hertfordshire? Read recorder Roy Woodward's assessment of exciting recent finds at: hnhs.org/news/scarce-bl…

The HNHS Autumn Meeting and AGM takes place on Saturday 1 October at Affinity Water, Hatfield (2pm to 5.15pm). Our first 'face-to face' conference since 2019! hnhs.org/news/hnhs-autu…

Landholders taking action for wildlife: read about the HNHS Autumn Meeting held on Saturday 1 October. hnhs.org/news/autumn-me…

Congratulations to mammals expert Jenny Jones (right), on winning this year's Trevor Jones Award for an outstanding Herts naturalist and botanist Brenda Harold, winner of our 1875 Award for an outstanding contribution to natural history in our county. hnhs.org/1875-awards