Fen raft spiders are making great progress
Our Broads Warden, Ellen, explains how these rare spiders are faring in Suffolk.
Brought back from the brink of extinction through a project of captive breeding and translocation in Suffolk, these spectacular spiders are now a familiar sight at Carlton Marshes and Castle…
Wildlife documentary film making student James Dunbar has produced a short film on the secret life of the raft spider.
A collaboration between Suffolk and Sussex Wildlife Trusts is helping to save one of Britain’s rarest spiders.
As the second phase of an ambitious translocation programme funded by the BBC Wildlife Fund, hundreds of fen raft spiderlings have been released at Carlton Marshes down stream of the first release…