Started over 40 years ago, the Group (NLWG) is an affiliated ‘Local Group’ of Lancashire Wildlife Trust and works to engage people with wildlife and to benefit wildlife as well as to support local nature initiatives in whatever ways we can. Information can be found on our website, on facebook and bluesky.

We offer monthly indoor wildlife talks in autumn and winter, and organise wildlife walks in spring and summer. People come on our free wildlife walks for different reasons: some enjoy an easy-going walk while hearing about the wildlife that we look for and see, some like to photograph wildlife and some record species. NLWG also puts on identification workshops every year.

Centred on the Lancaster district, we serve the adjacent areas of Lancashire, South Cumbria and North Yorkshire and our events regularly attract people from these areas. NLWG has its own membership which is free and open to everyone. Members receive emails approximately once a month about upcoming events and other news. They also get priority booking for workshops and other benefits such as borrowing from our library.

Another way that the Group tries to promote and encourage interest in wildlife is with the production of an annual wildlife magazine. Begun in the early eighties as a few typed sheets circulated to members, the present-day Magazine has grown to 64 A4 pages with over 40 reports and articles and with well over 250 wildlife photographs to illustrate them… and all about our local wildlife. It includes reports by Wildlife Trust officers, reports on taxonomic groups, field event reports and a range of miscellaneous wildlife articles. Invertebrates are very well represented throughout.

The full Magazine Contents (and more) can be seen on our website www.nlwg.org.uk and anyone wanting a copy of the Magazine will also find much more information there.

Contact: Rob Zloch, robszsz@yahoo.co.uk

Field event on the River Kent