We are the largest charity working for the conservation of wildlife and wild spaces within the three counties. Based in five offices, the Trust campaigns for the sensitive and sustainable management of wildlife in the countryside and the urban landscape, manages thousands of hectares of land for wildlife and people, and carries out extensive educational work

http://www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/bcnp/home.htm

The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough works for a better future for wildlife across our area. We manage almost 130 nature reserves covering over 4,500 acres; work to protect rare species (such as the otter, dormouse and barn owl); and fight to save sites where wildlife and countryside is threatened.
We involve people in every aspect of our work, through educating children about their natural environment, and encouraging everyone to enjoy wildlife and wild places in towns and the countryside.
The Wildlife Trust is dependent on voluntary donations.

Objectives:

• Acquisition and management of sites of nature conservation value
• Sustainable management of the wider countryside
• Creation of large scale habitats for the conservation of wildlife
• Access for people to wildlife
• Access for people to information about wildlife

Flora of Northamptonshire and the Soke of Peterborough
Gill Gent, Rob Wilson et al

A description of the flowering plants of this English county, the first to be published since the 1930s. As well as the systematic flora, the book contains background information on the county's climate, geology, soils, landscapes and plant habitats. There are also details of species presumed extinct, rare species and extremely rare species.

335 pages, col plates, distribution maps.
Northants FG

Bedfordshire Wildlife
BS Nau

192 pages, line illus, diagrams, maps, col & b/w photos.
Castlemead

Birds of Huntingdon and Peterborough
John S Clark

The first complete account of the avifauna of the Peterborough area, with details for all 304 species recorded there.

191 pages, 60 b/w illus, maps.
John S Clark

Wild Flower Key
Francis Rose

A 1991 reprint with minor corrections of this excellent book. Full keys to nearly 1400 species of flowers and plants not in flower, including grasses, sedges and rushes, comprehensively illustrated with over 1,000 paintings, plus full illustrated glossary of botanical terms. Covers Britain, lowland areas of France, Belgium, the Netherlands, northwest Germany and Denmark.

480 pages, col plates, line illus.
Warne Books

Millennium Atlas of Butterflies in Britain and Ireland
Jim Asher, Martin Warren and Richard Fox

Presents the findings of Butterflies for the New Millennium, the most comprehensive survey of butterflies ever undertaken in Britain and Ireland. After five years of recording by thousands of volunteers, it provides up-to-date assessment of the butterflies, the habitats they live in, the threats they face, and the major changes that have occurred since publication of the previous such atlas in 1984.
The body of the book is taken up with species accounts, each accompanied by a full-page distribution map and a colour photograph of the butterfly concerned. The book summarises the wealth of new information about butterfly ecology, incorporating findings from the Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, describes and illustrates the habitats favoured by particular communities of butterflies, and presents a vision of how these insects might be conserved in the future.

433 pages, col photos, figs, maps.
OUP

Field Guide to the Insects of Britain and Northern Europe
Michael Chinery

Fully revised edition of Chinery's classic work. Not to be confused with Chinery's Collins Guide to the Insects of Britain and Western Europe, this book is a discursive introduction to entomology, useful for identification, but with an equivalent content on biology and taxonomics, whereas the Collins Guide is a straight identification guide.

448 pages, 778 col illus, 1000 b/w illus.
Harper Collins

Managing Habitats for Conservation
Edited by WJ Sutherland and DA Hill

This comprehensive volume provides a pragmatic, habitat by habitat guide to conservation management, in which the prescriptions and methods are based upon sound science coupled with practical experience. The book indicates basic principles, shows the problems to look out for and gives examples of how not to manage land for conservation.

399 pages, col & b/w photos, illus.
CUP

Collins Wildlife Trust Guide: Trees of Britain and Europe
Keith Rushforth

Comprehensive collection of photographs of everything you need to identify a tree - whether in winter, spring, summer or autumn. It covers 800 species of tree - which is every European native, plus of all the species that are commonly planted in parks and gardens.

1336 pages, 2500 col plates.
Harper Collins

Field Guide to the Mammals of Britain and Europe
David MacDonald

Definitive field guide to the mammal fauna of Europe written by one of the world's mammal experts. It covers every species of mammal that occurs in Europe, including marine mammals, a total of over 230 species. The text covers identification, taxonomy, biology, behaviour, and distribution. The plates detail not only identification features but also paw prints, feeding signs and variants. The most authoritative guide yet published on the European mammal fauna. The colour plates include over 600 individual illustrations.

448 pages, 64 colour plates [by Priscilla Barrett], 236 b/w illus, 234 maps.
Harper Collins

Fenland: Its Ancient Past and Uncertain Future
H Godwin

203 pages, illus.
CUP