Senior Reserves Manager Matt Hamilton takes podcast host Sophie Baker on a tour of Wistow Wood, an ancient woodland of the Fen Edge in Cambridgeshire full of weird and wonderful coppice stools, the problems of ash dieback and a lot of innovation and experimentation for how best to ensure the resilience of these irreplaceable habitats.

Join Corporate Partnerships Manager, and keen birder, Nathan Long for a nearly-dawn chorus in Cambridgeshire with podcast host Sophie Baker to celebrate International Dawn Chorus Day, which this year (2025) takes place on Sunday 4th May. Whether you want to be inspired to get out and listen to the birds, or would rather someone else did it for you.. (I don't blame you!)... this podcast covers a wonderful walk around a Cambridgeshire reserve, taking in the birds and chatting about what it is that makes the cacophony of birdsong in the early morning so magical to human ears.

The new episode of In Conservation features the lawnmowers! Whether its cows, sheep or even pigs, the Trust has a whole host of animals that are deployed to take care of our grasslands and make them the best they can be for the wildlife that thrives there. Senior livestock officer Thomas Baker gives us the lowdown on what they do for wildlife, just what it takes to look after them, and a glimpse into the future plans for this area of work in our three counties. Mouflon, anyone?