Congratulations to University of Gloucestershire students Dilly Williams and Holly Jackson for winning the GNS Prizes this year for the best posters relating to natural history recording/study in Gloucestershire. Dilly…

Please note that we’ve received the following message from the Cheltenham Biodiversity Festival which has had to be cancelled… Sadly, we are not in a position to run the festival…

GNS has decided to run the photo competition again this year, the best will feature in a Zoom meeting towards the end of the year AND / OR at the…

The GNS invites applications for grants to support projects that enhance the understanding of natural history of Gloucestershire. One such recent project was awarded funding for Dormouse boxes, as Jane…

by Juliet Bailey. Eight members met on a very pleasant afternoon on the last day of February to look at the lichens in Newent. We started at a tree surrounded…

Come and see us at the Gloucestershire Heritage Hub this Saturday (7th) from 1 to 4 pm. Gloucestershire Heritage Hub’s open day for March is about wildlife.  GNS has a…

This is just a reminder that the speaker at this year’s AGM will be Hugh Warwick, an ecologist and writer with a particular fondness for hedgehogs. More information about Hugh…

The following three Zoom meetings are due to take place in March 2026; these are meetings for members only, if you are not a member but would like to join…

On 5th February, GNS held a field meeting at Stratford Park, Stroud with sound recordist Hugh Manistre. The jackdaws were late to the party but so good to focus on…

The AGM of Gloucestershire Naturalist Society will take place in the EdShed of The Folk, Quay Street, Gloucester, on Wednesday 18 March 2026 at 7.30pm. Following the business meeting there…

Please be aware that the Ashleworth Ham field meeting scheduled for the 1st Feb has had to be postponed for a second time due to flooding. We hope to reschedule…

Guy Meredith took up the challenge of recording Gloucestershire micro-moths in 2002 and has made a large number of new county records including many of national significance. He calls himself…