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    If you enjoy using a camera please send us your photos or videos of wildlife and landscape in the Binsted/Arundel/Tortington area.  
    For the time being these should go by email to MAVES Chair Julia Plumstead. 

    Please respect the rights of way and farming/forestry interests, and take care not to damage or disturb one kind of flora or fauna whilst photographing another.

  • To enter the amazing world of fungi - where better to look than along Binsted's ancient trackways through ancient woods fields and hedgerows

  • Small Mammals in the Arundel/Binsted area - a Water Vole, some of our many Dormice, and a Woodmouse

  • From left to right, starting at the top: Ratty, followed by Happy, Sleepy, InThisTogether, and The Ecology Surveyor. 
    Water Vole by Gary Howard, Dormice and (last one) Wood Mouse by Ian Powell.

    There are many floral hotspots in the Binsted area:

    In Binsted Woods you will find majestic oaks, spring flowers such as primrose, bluebell, early purple orchids, wood anemones and wood sorrel, and even a few daffodils and snakeshead fritillaries.  A little way to the south east the old lane verges have plants scarce in the area such as Lathyrus linifolius.

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  • MAVES began its work as an environmental charity in 2015.  By 2018 we had grown to the size requiring registration with the Charity Commission.  We did so under the name Arun Countryside Trust CIO to allow a wider long term remit, supporting the Arun countryside's cultural heritage alongside its natural environment.  We will continue to use the name 'MAVES' for our natural environment work. 

    Partner organisations include Sussex Wildlife Trust and Arundel Agenda 21.

  • MAVES, as the environmental wing of Arun Countryside Trust, aims to:

    Understand, conserve & enhance the environment and countryside of Arun