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The City of Bristol and the surrounding urban areas have a fabulous range of Nature Reserves and wildlife sites, many of which are unknown to the majority of residents.
These pages and Bristol's Big Wildlife Map will help you find some of these secret gems and to understand more about them. We hope that it will also inspire you to seek them out and explore them for yourself.
Bristol Parks' Nature in the City Project being run by Sally Oldfield focuses on Troopers Hill and the five other sites described below. The project is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Neighbourhood Renewal's Parks Improvement Programme and is currently funded until March 2009.
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 Badock's Wood LNR is approximately 8 hectares and provides a wildlife haven in an urban setting. It comprises woodland, a stream and open grassland, as well as a Bronze Age burial mound.
The FOBW along with Bristol Parks help by maintaining and improving the different habitats - improving the woodland and stream environment in respect of safety, access and enabling it to be used for educational activities for the local communities, especially Southmead.
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 Eastwood Farm LNR is a little further up the Avon Valley from Troopers Hill on the other side of the river. Formerly farmland, it was purchased by the council and used as a landfill site in the 1970s. Tipping finished in 1978 and since then the area has undergone extensive landscaping, resulting in the beautiful open space we see today.
At weekends you can get there by taking the ferry to Beeses Bar and Tea Gardens from Conham - Beeses is now open all year river permitting. The site can also be accessed by road from Whitmore Avenue in Broomhill (just off Broomhill Road, almost opposite Brislington Police Station), and by foot from Wyndham Crescent and Eastwood Road. By bus catch the No 1 and get off in Whitmore Avenue which is the end of the route.
Click here for an image of the site's interpretation board which has more information about the site.
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 The Malago Valley Conservation Group is a voluntary group covering south-west Bristol - Bedminster Down, Bishopsworth, Hartcliffe, Headley Park, Highridge, Withywood - roughly, the BS13 postal area.
The newly designated Manor Woods Valley LNR falls within their area and is looked after by the Manor Woods Valley Group.
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 Narroways Hill, in St.Werburghs, Bristol, is a little grassy & wooded ridge dissected by railway lines. Following demonstrations by local people when British Rail threatened to sell it in 1997 money was raised so it was purchased by Bristol City Council. It became a Millennium Green in the year 2000, with a 999 year lease to keep it free and open to the local people and allow wildlife to thrive.
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The Northern Slopes Initiative is a group of people seeking to maintain, conserve and enhance their local open space resource known and grouped collectively as the Northern Slopes.
The Slopes are three areas of public open space, in Knowle, south Bristol. Separately they are known as Novers Common, Glyn Vale/Kingswear and Wedmore Vale (The Bommie) although local people may use other names.
Originally set up to protect the areas from housing development, the Group has expanded its work to encourage others to join with them to work for the benefit of the people and communities that live around the Slopes; and the features that make the Slopes what they are.
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