A heath or heathland is a shrublandhabitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and is characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with— especially in the British Isles— a cooler and more damp climate.
Heaths are widespread worldwide, but are fast disappearing and considered a rare habitat in Europe. They form extensive and highly diverse communities across Australia in humid and sub-humid areas. Fire regimes with recurring burning are required for the maintenance of the heathlands. Even more diverse though less widespread heath communities occur in Southern Africa. Extensive heath communities can also be found in the Californiachaparral, New Caledonia, central Chile and along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. In addition to these extensive heath areas, the vegetation type is also found in scattered locations across all continents, except Antarctica.
Characteristics
Heathland is favoured where climatic conditions are typically warm and dry, particularly in summer, and soils acidic, of low fertility, and often sandy and very free-draining; mires do occur where drainage is poor, but are usually only small in extent. Heaths are dominated by low shrubs, 20 centimetres (7.9in) to 2 metres (7 feet) tall.
Heathland habitats play a vital role in the UK's environmental landscape. Volunteer Leader Alan explains how important heathland habitats are, and why we have large numbers of volunteers assisting with the bracken management in this very special area of the Forest.
published: 29 Jun 2023
Nature recovery in the West Midlands: The importance of heathlands
The Purple Horizons Nature Recovery Project and Midlands Heathland Heartland Partnership are creating and restoring heathland habitats in the area between Sutton Park in Birmingham and Cannock Chase in Staffordshire.
This video showcases the importance of heathland habitats and the diversity of species that they support, as well as what you can do to help look after these special places.
Film created by Ian Dearman, Scruffy Whippet Media.
Heathland is beautiful, wild and full of rare and intriguing wildlife. Together, Dorset’s heathlands form one of the best remaining areas of this rare and special habitat in the world!
Species like the Pale Dog Violet and Southern Damselfly, the Purbeck Mason Wasp, Bee Wolf and Sand Lizard all call this special heathland habitat home.
This incredible film takes you through some of the spectacular species that call this habitat home and the work we're doing to create the micro-habitats the populations need to expand.
Find out more: https://naturebftb.co.uk/the-projects/dorsets-heathland-heart/
published: 31 May 2020
Heathland conservation
published: 06 Apr 2023
Skep Beekeeping in the Heathland - 1978
Over the past few years, I have really enjoyed these skep beekeeping videos and I always wanted to find them in one place, so I have edited them all together into one long movie for you so you have all the info in one place. Enjoy.
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Parker Bees Blog: http://parkerbees.blogspot.com
Treatment-Free Beekeep...
published: 28 Mar 2018
Heathland wildlife in the South Downs National Park
Lowland heath is a fragile habitat. 95% of it has been lost worldwide and 20% of what is left, is in the UK. Fragmented by development and forest encroachment, the wildlife in these small islands of heathland remains highly vulnerable.
But great efforts are being made to bring back grazing and to create wildlife corridors, linking the heathlands together, helping the animals and plants that live here to flourish.
Find out more about our work to protect the small pockets of lowland heath that remain in the South Downs through the Heathland Reunited project - https://www.southdowns.gov.uk/heathlands-reunited
Keep up to date with what's going on in the National Park by following our other social media channels.
https://www.facebook.com/sdnpa
https://www.twitter.com/sdnpa
https://www.inst...
published: 29 Mar 2018
Heathland restoration at Trehill Farm, Pembrokeshire
Coastal heathland is a real hotspot for nature and you’ll see the habitat thriving on the clifftops around the Marloes Peninsula. Much of this land was the focus of a major conservation scheme to return agricultural fields back to their natural heath habitat.
Here, local farmer Peter Smithies shares why the heathland restoration was so important for such a special place.
Discover your Marloes at http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/pembrokeshire
With thanks to Natural Resources Wales, Trehill Farm, Andy Davies Photography and Video, and Grant Sonnex.
published: 16 Nov 2015
Natural Futures: Heathland
Ecologist Gavin Saunders talks about heathland habitat and the wildlife it supports.
A short film showing heathland restoration at Greenham Common - by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. Find out more about BBOWT's work in this area here: http://www.bbowt.org.uk/what-we-do/living-landscapes/west-berkshire-living-landscape
Heathland habitats play a vital role in the UK's environmental landscape. Volunteer Leader Alan explains how important heathland habitats are, and why we have l...
Heathland habitats play a vital role in the UK's environmental landscape. Volunteer Leader Alan explains how important heathland habitats are, and why we have large numbers of volunteers assisting with the bracken management in this very special area of the Forest.
Heathland habitats play a vital role in the UK's environmental landscape. Volunteer Leader Alan explains how important heathland habitats are, and why we have large numbers of volunteers assisting with the bracken management in this very special area of the Forest.
The Purple Horizons Nature Recovery Project and Midlands Heathland Heartland Partnership are creating and restoring heathland habitats in the area between Sutto...
The Purple Horizons Nature Recovery Project and Midlands Heathland Heartland Partnership are creating and restoring heathland habitats in the area between Sutton Park in Birmingham and Cannock Chase in Staffordshire.
This video showcases the importance of heathland habitats and the diversity of species that they support, as well as what you can do to help look after these special places.
Film created by Ian Dearman, Scruffy Whippet Media.
The Purple Horizons Nature Recovery Project and Midlands Heathland Heartland Partnership are creating and restoring heathland habitats in the area between Sutton Park in Birmingham and Cannock Chase in Staffordshire.
This video showcases the importance of heathland habitats and the diversity of species that they support, as well as what you can do to help look after these special places.
Film created by Ian Dearman, Scruffy Whippet Media.
Heathland is beautiful, wild and full of rare and intriguing wildlife. Together, Dorset’s heathlands form one of the best remaining areas of this rare and speci...
Heathland is beautiful, wild and full of rare and intriguing wildlife. Together, Dorset’s heathlands form one of the best remaining areas of this rare and special habitat in the world!
Species like the Pale Dog Violet and Southern Damselfly, the Purbeck Mason Wasp, Bee Wolf and Sand Lizard all call this special heathland habitat home.
This incredible film takes you through some of the spectacular species that call this habitat home and the work we're doing to create the micro-habitats the populations need to expand.
Find out more: https://naturebftb.co.uk/the-projects/dorsets-heathland-heart/
Heathland is beautiful, wild and full of rare and intriguing wildlife. Together, Dorset’s heathlands form one of the best remaining areas of this rare and special habitat in the world!
Species like the Pale Dog Violet and Southern Damselfly, the Purbeck Mason Wasp, Bee Wolf and Sand Lizard all call this special heathland habitat home.
This incredible film takes you through some of the spectacular species that call this habitat home and the work we're doing to create the micro-habitats the populations need to expand.
Find out more: https://naturebftb.co.uk/the-projects/dorsets-heathland-heart/
Over the past few years, I have really enjoyed these skep beekeeping videos and I always wanted to find them in one place, so I have edited them all together in...
Over the past few years, I have really enjoyed these skep beekeeping videos and I always wanted to find them in one place, so I have edited them all together into one long movie for you so you have all the info in one place. Enjoy.
If this free media has been helpful or profitable to you, please become a patron of this work at http://www.patreon.com/tfb Your support makes more of this type of material available to you and others around the world. Thanks.
Treatment-Free Beekeeping Podcast: http://tfb.podbean.com
Treatment-Free Beekeepers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/treatmentfreebeekeepers/
Treatment-Free Beekeeping Forum: http://forum.tfbees.net
Parker Bees Website: http://www.parkerbees.com
Parker Bees Blog: http://parkerbees.blogspot.com
Treatment-Free Beekeeping YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/treatmentfreebeekeeping
Conventional beekeeping practices are damaging to the bee population and new beekeepers are often pressured into keeping bees in conventional ways. Treatment-Free Beekeepers of which this channel is a part, is a project I started as a space for treatment-free beekeepers to gather and discuss methods for beekeeping as well as successes and failures, all within a context where they will never be criticized or berated for their choice not to dump pesticides into their hives. It is the only such space on the internet that I am aware of, and has become wildly popular. When I started it, I expected a couple hundred members who would have lots of fun but limited reach. Now it has over 32,000 members and is the third largest beekeeping group on Facebook. This channel is a resource for that effort.
Over the past few years, I have really enjoyed these skep beekeeping videos and I always wanted to find them in one place, so I have edited them all together into one long movie for you so you have all the info in one place. Enjoy.
If this free media has been helpful or profitable to you, please become a patron of this work at http://www.patreon.com/tfb Your support makes more of this type of material available to you and others around the world. Thanks.
Treatment-Free Beekeeping Podcast: http://tfb.podbean.com
Treatment-Free Beekeepers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/treatmentfreebeekeepers/
Treatment-Free Beekeeping Forum: http://forum.tfbees.net
Parker Bees Website: http://www.parkerbees.com
Parker Bees Blog: http://parkerbees.blogspot.com
Treatment-Free Beekeeping YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/treatmentfreebeekeeping
Conventional beekeeping practices are damaging to the bee population and new beekeepers are often pressured into keeping bees in conventional ways. Treatment-Free Beekeepers of which this channel is a part, is a project I started as a space for treatment-free beekeepers to gather and discuss methods for beekeeping as well as successes and failures, all within a context where they will never be criticized or berated for their choice not to dump pesticides into their hives. It is the only such space on the internet that I am aware of, and has become wildly popular. When I started it, I expected a couple hundred members who would have lots of fun but limited reach. Now it has over 32,000 members and is the third largest beekeeping group on Facebook. This channel is a resource for that effort.
Lowland heath is a fragile habitat. 95% of it has been lost worldwide and 20% of what is left, is in the UK. Fragmented by development and forest encroachment, ...
Lowland heath is a fragile habitat. 95% of it has been lost worldwide and 20% of what is left, is in the UK. Fragmented by development and forest encroachment, the wildlife in these small islands of heathland remains highly vulnerable.
But great efforts are being made to bring back grazing and to create wildlife corridors, linking the heathlands together, helping the animals and plants that live here to flourish.
Find out more about our work to protect the small pockets of lowland heath that remain in the South Downs through the Heathland Reunited project - https://www.southdowns.gov.uk/heathlands-reunited
Keep up to date with what's going on in the National Park by following our other social media channels.
https://www.facebook.com/sdnpa
https://www.twitter.com/sdnpa
https://www.instagram.com/southdownsnp
#SouthDowns #Nature #Reptiles #Wildlife #BritishWildlife #NatureLovers
Lowland heath is a fragile habitat. 95% of it has been lost worldwide and 20% of what is left, is in the UK. Fragmented by development and forest encroachment, the wildlife in these small islands of heathland remains highly vulnerable.
But great efforts are being made to bring back grazing and to create wildlife corridors, linking the heathlands together, helping the animals and plants that live here to flourish.
Find out more about our work to protect the small pockets of lowland heath that remain in the South Downs through the Heathland Reunited project - https://www.southdowns.gov.uk/heathlands-reunited
Keep up to date with what's going on in the National Park by following our other social media channels.
https://www.facebook.com/sdnpa
https://www.twitter.com/sdnpa
https://www.instagram.com/southdownsnp
#SouthDowns #Nature #Reptiles #Wildlife #BritishWildlife #NatureLovers
Coastal heathland is a real hotspot for nature and you’ll see the habitat thriving on the clifftops around the Marloes Peninsula. Much of this land was the focu...
Coastal heathland is a real hotspot for nature and you’ll see the habitat thriving on the clifftops around the Marloes Peninsula. Much of this land was the focus of a major conservation scheme to return agricultural fields back to their natural heath habitat.
Here, local farmer Peter Smithies shares why the heathland restoration was so important for such a special place.
Discover your Marloes at http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/pembrokeshire
With thanks to Natural Resources Wales, Trehill Farm, Andy Davies Photography and Video, and Grant Sonnex.
Coastal heathland is a real hotspot for nature and you’ll see the habitat thriving on the clifftops around the Marloes Peninsula. Much of this land was the focus of a major conservation scheme to return agricultural fields back to their natural heath habitat.
Here, local farmer Peter Smithies shares why the heathland restoration was so important for such a special place.
Discover your Marloes at http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/pembrokeshire
With thanks to Natural Resources Wales, Trehill Farm, Andy Davies Photography and Video, and Grant Sonnex.
A short film showing heathland restoration at Greenham Common - by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. Find out more about BBOWT's wo...
A short film showing heathland restoration at Greenham Common - by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. Find out more about BBOWT's work in this area here: http://www.bbowt.org.uk/what-we-do/living-landscapes/west-berkshire-living-landscape
A short film showing heathland restoration at Greenham Common - by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. Find out more about BBOWT's work in this area here: http://www.bbowt.org.uk/what-we-do/living-landscapes/west-berkshire-living-landscape
Heathland habitats play a vital role in the UK's environmental landscape. Volunteer Leader Alan explains how important heathland habitats are, and why we have large numbers of volunteers assisting with the bracken management in this very special area of the Forest.
The Purple Horizons Nature Recovery Project and Midlands Heathland Heartland Partnership are creating and restoring heathland habitats in the area between Sutton Park in Birmingham and Cannock Chase in Staffordshire.
This video showcases the importance of heathland habitats and the diversity of species that they support, as well as what you can do to help look after these special places.
Film created by Ian Dearman, Scruffy Whippet Media.
Heathland is beautiful, wild and full of rare and intriguing wildlife. Together, Dorset’s heathlands form one of the best remaining areas of this rare and special habitat in the world!
Species like the Pale Dog Violet and Southern Damselfly, the Purbeck Mason Wasp, Bee Wolf and Sand Lizard all call this special heathland habitat home.
This incredible film takes you through some of the spectacular species that call this habitat home and the work we're doing to create the micro-habitats the populations need to expand.
Find out more: https://naturebftb.co.uk/the-projects/dorsets-heathland-heart/
Over the past few years, I have really enjoyed these skep beekeeping videos and I always wanted to find them in one place, so I have edited them all together into one long movie for you so you have all the info in one place. Enjoy.
If this free media has been helpful or profitable to you, please become a patron of this work at http://www.patreon.com/tfb Your support makes more of this type of material available to you and others around the world. Thanks.
Treatment-Free Beekeeping Podcast: http://tfb.podbean.com
Treatment-Free Beekeepers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/treatmentfreebeekeepers/
Treatment-Free Beekeeping Forum: http://forum.tfbees.net
Parker Bees Website: http://www.parkerbees.com
Parker Bees Blog: http://parkerbees.blogspot.com
Treatment-Free Beekeeping YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/treatmentfreebeekeeping
Conventional beekeeping practices are damaging to the bee population and new beekeepers are often pressured into keeping bees in conventional ways. Treatment-Free Beekeepers of which this channel is a part, is a project I started as a space for treatment-free beekeepers to gather and discuss methods for beekeeping as well as successes and failures, all within a context where they will never be criticized or berated for their choice not to dump pesticides into their hives. It is the only such space on the internet that I am aware of, and has become wildly popular. When I started it, I expected a couple hundred members who would have lots of fun but limited reach. Now it has over 32,000 members and is the third largest beekeeping group on Facebook. This channel is a resource for that effort.
Lowland heath is a fragile habitat. 95% of it has been lost worldwide and 20% of what is left, is in the UK. Fragmented by development and forest encroachment, the wildlife in these small islands of heathland remains highly vulnerable.
But great efforts are being made to bring back grazing and to create wildlife corridors, linking the heathlands together, helping the animals and plants that live here to flourish.
Find out more about our work to protect the small pockets of lowland heath that remain in the South Downs through the Heathland Reunited project - https://www.southdowns.gov.uk/heathlands-reunited
Keep up to date with what's going on in the National Park by following our other social media channels.
https://www.facebook.com/sdnpa
https://www.twitter.com/sdnpa
https://www.instagram.com/southdownsnp
#SouthDowns #Nature #Reptiles #Wildlife #BritishWildlife #NatureLovers
Coastal heathland is a real hotspot for nature and you’ll see the habitat thriving on the clifftops around the Marloes Peninsula. Much of this land was the focus of a major conservation scheme to return agricultural fields back to their natural heath habitat.
Here, local farmer Peter Smithies shares why the heathland restoration was so important for such a special place.
Discover your Marloes at http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/pembrokeshire
With thanks to Natural Resources Wales, Trehill Farm, Andy Davies Photography and Video, and Grant Sonnex.
A short film showing heathland restoration at Greenham Common - by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. Find out more about BBOWT's work in this area here: http://www.bbowt.org.uk/what-we-do/living-landscapes/west-berkshire-living-landscape
A heath or heathland is a shrublandhabitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and is characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with— especially in the British Isles— a cooler and more damp climate.
Heaths are widespread worldwide, but are fast disappearing and considered a rare habitat in Europe. They form extensive and highly diverse communities across Australia in humid and sub-humid areas. Fire regimes with recurring burning are required for the maintenance of the heathlands. Even more diverse though less widespread heath communities occur in Southern Africa. Extensive heath communities can also be found in the Californiachaparral, New Caledonia, central Chile and along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. In addition to these extensive heath areas, the vegetation type is also found in scattered locations across all continents, except Antarctica.
Characteristics
Heathland is favoured where climatic conditions are typically warm and dry, particularly in summer, and soils acidic, of low fertility, and often sandy and very free-draining; mires do occur where drainage is poor, but are usually only small in extent. Heaths are dominated by low shrubs, 20 centimetres (7.9in) to 2 metres (7 feet) tall.
Tarmac and The Greensand Trust have recently come together to celebrate 30 years of heathland restoration at Rammamere Heath, near Rushmere Country Park, Heath and Reach... .
Tarmac and The Greensand Trust have recently come together to celebrate 30 years of heathland restoration at Rammamere Heath, near Rushmere Country Park, Heath and Reach.
heathland ... before me? She could not have known how heathlands would succumb to the challenges of urbanisation, afforestation and agricultural intensification ... For now, this heathland is in good hands.
Heswall, Wirral. Residents call their heath ‘the dales’ ... The ash-grey layer, lacking colour and nutrients, spoke of many thousand years’ formation ... heathland ... I was visiting a habitat of some rarity and sensitivity ....
The M25 junction 10 and A3 in Surrey is surrounded by ancient heathland ... "Heathland is a diverse habitat, creating lots of homes for all kinds of animals, insects, reptiles, and birds ... Wildlife that will benefit from the heathland restoration..
