Engaging People with the Natural World
through Collaborative Action

Wild Encounters

Find out about the Bristol Natural History Consortium projects

Find out about the Bristol Natural History Consortium and how it all began

Investigate what we've learned from our various projects

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News

Festival of Nature: City Nature Challenge update

Between April 24-27 Bristol and Bath will collaborate with 150+ cities across the world to find and record as much local wildlife as possible as part of City Nature Challenge. Find out more!

Festival of Nature 2020 Update

To support the safety and wellbeing of our visitors, staff and volunteers during the coronavirus social distancing period, Festival of Nature will be making some significant changes to our spring and summer programming.

Action for Nature Event

News from the event exploring how everyone can rise to challenges we are facing from the climate and ecological crisis.

TAKE ACTION FOR NATURE AND VOLUNTEERING AT #FON20

Join the Festival of Nature Team at two special one of events ahead of the main festival programme coming up in Feburary and March!

THANK YOU!

2019 has been a busy one for the Natural History Consortium - take a look at our year in numbers!

Riding Waves, Changing Worlds

Find out more about Communicate 2019 and the theme of this year's conference.

5 Top reasons to come to Communicate

Not sure whether Communicate is right for you? Find out why our vast community of professionals would recommend the conference

Bristol Nature Network Relaunch

Bristol Nature Network is a community of young people(18-30ish) who share a passion for nature! Join them on the 5th September to see how you can help shape the network going forward!

City Nature Challenge 2019

Top in Europe for the second year running! Between 26-29 April 2019 Bristol and Bath competed with 165 cities on all seven continents to show the world how amazing our region is for people and nature. Together we embarked on an epic contest: to discover and record as much wildlife as possible over 4 days....

Virtual Reality at Festival of Nature 2019!

Come face-to-face with wildlife in virtual reality this weekend with