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This February, Tarmac’s Panshanger Park is launching a ‘PanshanGo’ campaign, encouraging people to go outdoors, get active and experience nature, to improve mental health and wellbeing.

The start of a new year can be a time of reflection on the year just past, as well as looking ahead for what’s to come. Now seems a good time to look back at what happened at Panshanger Park in 2023. If you’ve visited the park anytime over the...

People across Hertfordshire are invited to attend a free event with leading nature experts. Tarmac, the owners of the popular Panshanger Park in the county, is hosting the 'Nature of Panshanger Park' event in Hertford later this month in partnership with Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust. People who are wild...

December is often a month for snuggling up and spending more time inside, sometimes disconnecting us a little from the outside world and our local green spaces. However, December and Christmas have a number of associations with wildlife and nature.

We are now very much in the midst of autumn, with the autumnal winds whirling the leaves off the trees in a colourful display of orange, reds, yellows and browns.

Autumn has well and truly arrived despite this year’s late summer heat, with signs of this at the park. The leaves on the trees are showing that greeny-brown hue, and fruiting fungus, most commonly-recognised in the form of a mushroom, can be seen poking through the leaf litter on the...

Wednesday 11 October marked the ninth anniversary of parkrun at Panshanger Park, with celebrations taking place on Saturday 14 October.

It has been a fragmented sort of summer; the bright June weather became but a distant memory and a resignation that we’d seen the summer sunshine peak. But September brought with it a resurgence of the summer weather and the wildlife! Many butterflies and insects re-emerged and became active again.

Leading ecologists have identified Panshanger Park in Hertfordshire as one of the most important habitats for a group of beetles in the UK, including recording a significant number of rare species. 

The summery weather has been in short supply this year, however, even if the sun isn’t shining there’s still plenty of reasons to go outside and enjoy your local green spaces.