Hertfordshire's Local Nature Recovery Strategy Launched
Hertfordshire’s first Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) has now been published. Tim Hill, Trustee of HNHS, said: "This is a landmark step in restoring and enhancing nature across Hertfordshire and the wider restoration of nature across England. This "blueprint" for the county is designed to identify where and how to restore nature to tackle the biodiversity and climate crises."
The full details of Hertfordshire’s LNRS are available here.
Wild Orchids of Hertfordshire – the 2026 Gerald Salisbury Lecture
Join us in Welwyn at 8pm on Thursday 22 January for 'Wild Orchids of Hertfordshire' – the 2026 Gerald Salisbury Memorial Lecture.
Co-county flora recorder Prof. Ian Denholm will give a talk that he and Prof. Richard Bateman, a fellow orchid expert and enthusiast, have prepared. Together, they have half a century's experience surveying for orchids in Hertfordshire.
Visit our North Herts exhibition, starting 16 December in Hitchin
We are near the end of the Society's 150th anniversary year, but exiting in style with an exhibition at North Hertfordshire Museum (Broad Street, Hitchin SG5 1JE) from 16 December to 15 February.
'Wildlife – for the record' focuses on habitats, flora and fauna that are special to the north of our county, including chalk grassland, streams, and species such as White Helleborine orchids and Chalkhill Blue butterflies.
Christmas Book Offer - Land Beneath the Waves
Hertfordshire Guardian Country Diarist and HNHS member, Nic Wilson, is offering discounted, signed copies of her nature memoir, Land Beneath the Waves, to HNHS supporters this Christmas, sent by post to the address of your choice for £15 (RRP £18.99) + P&P.
Natural history experts honoured at 150th anniversary meeting
A leading geologist and a bird identification expert were honoured at the HNHS Autumn Meeting on Saturday 18 October as the Society continued celebrations marking its 150th anniversary.
Haydon Bailey, a national authority on chalk strata and fossils, received the Trevor James Award for an outstanding Hertfordshire natural historian. Haydon is Chair of Hertfordshire Geological Society which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
Photo of Dr Bailey receiving his award from the High Sheriff, Nicholas Buxton (© David Utting)