East of England - local nature and wildlife activities

Discover your local environment with OPAL

Take part in an OPAL survey
Learn more about soils, water, lichens and climate, and contribute to valuable research with our OPAL surveys.

For support, advice and survey packs contact opaleastofengland@herts.ac.uk.

Join in an OPAL event or activity
We organise everything from BioBlitzes to nature walks. Get in touch to find out what activities you can get involved in.

Tailored activities for your group or school
We can organise an event specifically for your group. Previous events include survey days, pond dipping, and minibeast hunts. Contact opaleastofengland@herts.ac.uk.

Explore our orchards and the wonderful things
that live there

We want people to observe and learn to identify some of the less common plant and animal species that live in the region’s fruit orchards.

Extraordinary species
Discover the mosses, liverworts, lichens and fungi that grow on and around different varieties of fruit trees.

Join in an orchard investigation
Help us explore the wildlife within local fruit-growing sites. Use microscopes and digital photography to help identify and record what you have found. If you're interested in getting involved contact opaleastofengland@herts.ac.uk.

Field guides
We are producing simple guides to the wildlife and plants that can be spotted in orchards to inform your own explorations and bring these habitats alive.

Contact us
opaleastofengland@herts.ac.uk

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OPAL East of England is led by the University of Hertfordshire.

East of England partners: British Bryological Society, British Lichen Society, British Mycological Society, Bergh Apton Conservation Trust,