Pasque Flowers at Therfield Heath © Steve Chilton
Hertfordshire Natural History Society’s volunteers have been monitoring local wildlife since 1875.
The valuable information they collect on birds, mammals, insects, plants and other species groups helps track how the natural world is changing around us.
Wild About Hertfordshire – Our 150th anniversary at St Albans Museum (21 March - 6 July 2025) – looks back at 150 years of sharing and extending that knowledge. It celebrates our county’s wildlife and habitats and shows how the work of dedicated volunteers is helping protect them for the future in uncertain times.
Photo: Peregrine Falcon (female) at St Albans Cathedral © Patrick Wainwright
These pages provide additional information relating to some of the exhibits:
The River Ver and other Hertfordshire chalk streams
Hertfordshire's Changing Wildlife – new and recently extinct species
The HNHS collection of rare historic botany books
Revd. Tom Gladwin – memoirs of a 'Hertfordshire hedgehog'
The 'Wild About Hertfordshire' nature trail around St Albans
HNHS is grateful to Affinity Water for generously sponsoring t3-D models of sections of the River Ver, showing the underlying geological strata, that were specially commissioned for his exhibition.
