Natural environment
The Romney Marshes support internationally valued wetland and shingle habitats, most notably the vegetated shingle at Dungeness, which is important for biodiversity and its geological structure. The grazing marsh is important for the wildfowl and wading birds that it supports, together with the wet ditches and other water courses which are rich in aquatic plants and animals.
Key species include brown hare, water vole, great crested newt and common toad, medicinal leech, breeding and wintering wetland birds, rare plants such as greater water parsnip, and invertebrates associated with shingle and wetland habitats. The area is important for bats, particularly serotine and soprano pipistrelle, and holds one of the few remaining tree sparrow populations in Kent
Dungeness National Nature Reserve
www.dungeness-nnr.co.uk
Dungeness RSPB reserve
www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/d/dungeness/index.asp
Ham Street Woods National Nature Reserve
www.naturalengland.org.uk/ourwork/conservation/designatedareas/nnr/1006068.aspx
Romney Marsh Countryside Project
www.rmcp.co.uk/Wildlife.html
Royal Military Canal
www.royalmilitarycanal.com/pages/index.asp
www.shepway.gov.uk/content/view/200658/3658/
RX Wildlife Sightings
www.rxwildlife.org.uk
Rye Harbour nature reserve
www.wildrye.info/reserve
The Warren, Romney Marsh Visitor Centre
http://www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/reserves/romney-marsh/romney-marsh-overview/
