Welcome! Gloucestershire Naturalists’ Society (GNS) is the natural history recording organisation for Gloucestershire, UK, recording all of the flora and fauna in the county. The society publishes a quarterly newsletter, a journal and an annual bird report as well as organising lectures and field meetings. The society was formed in 1948 with the aim of promoting an interest in the varied wildlife of the county. At the same time, it assumed the task of recording the county’s flora and fauna. To assist in this, the society appoints and supports county recorders for all aspects of wildlife.
Our next event
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Date: 31/05/2026 Time: 10:30 - 14:30 |
Botany for Intermediates
Tidenham Chase Car Park, Lydney Poor’s Allotment Leader: Jude Smith 10:30-14:30 Meet at Tidenham Chase Car Park at 10:30. W3W; pioneered.invested.courier GR: ST55853 99287 ‘An opportunity to improve plant identification skills. In groups of two or three, we will spend... |
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Recent news
Coombe Hill – 21st May
On 21 May (this year coinciding with Biodiversity Week) ten GNS members attended what has now become an annual evening field meeting in early summer at the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust…
Cleeve Hill field meeting report
by Alan Waterman Weather is always an important factor and, in the lead up to this meeting it had not been good. We met in the Golf Club Carpark and…
Pasqueflower
Pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vulgaris), a rare member of the buttercup family, is just coming into bloom. It still can be seen on a few sunny grasslands on thin soils in the…
Woorgreen and Crabtree Hill Sunday 24th March.
Good weather and a nice sized group, we were lucky to have some experts on hand so that a good range of speciescould be identified. With one exception(reptiles) we managed…
Snowshill field meeting cancelled
Please note that the field meeting that was due to take place at Snowshill this Sunday the 17th March has been cancelled. The location was checked in advance of the…
Cyril Hart Arboretum, Forest of Dean
Sunday 25th and it was time to ID some Conifers, lead by Clare and Mark Kitchen, quite a task as 36 keenGymnologists turned up. Is there such a word? Well,…
GNS field meeting – Chedworth’s Bryological Byways
The phrase good weather for ducks could be adapted to good weather for mosses, especially as toproliferate they need water so their antherozoids can swim, sperm like, to meet up…
AGM
The Society’s Annual General Meeting will take place on 27 March 2024 in the Ed Shed at the rear of the main Folk building, Westgate Street, Gloucester; 7.15 for 7.30 pm. The business…
Ashleworth Ham Field Meeting, Jan 24
Just over a dozen members met at the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust’s (GWT) Ashleworth Ham reserve this morning, in the wake of named storm Jocelyn which had passed breezily through the…
GNS Photographic Competition finalists
In case you weren’t able to join us for the presentation of the finalists’ submissions to the 2023 GNS Photographic Competition, and the announcements of the winners, you can now…
Beaver visit – 16 January 2024
We were blessed with good weather, about as good as it gets in mid-January, fine blue skies, sunny and crisp, cold yes but this meant that the mud was frozen….
New Year Plant Hunt
The Plant Group’s New Year Plant Hunt was a cheerful affair with a large group of us wandering up the Miry Brook valley in Nailsworth, recording mostly the sorts of…