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Why choose Kent Wildlife Trust as your charity of the year?

Learn more … Why choose Kent Wildlife Trust as your charity … considering us! There are a few ways you can help us:  become a corporate partner  fundraise for us  volunteer with … As a corporate partner, you could:  feature on our website and social media  have access to over 32,000 members  …

River Darenth Spring

Education & the Darent Valley Landscape Recovery Project

… Kent & what nature means to them. … Wilder Schools Video … Learn more about Education at Kent Wildlife Trust … The … lapwing, adder, man orchid, water crowfoot and brown trout. Community engagement is crucial to the success of the … amazed to hear that the school has planted an orchard on site to support wildlife and encourage food that is locally …

Principles for Biodiversity Net Gain

… Kent Wildlife Trust wants to use BNG to enable genuine, scaled up habitat restoration and improvements … We will therefore seek to incorporate key BNG funded sites into its estate, in line with our targets to double … other designations do not deliver maximised biodiversity outcomes, let alone facilitate improved co-benefits from a …

Paws for thought: Balancing pets with conservation

Learn more … Paws for thought: Balancing pets with … dog lovers and nature lovers, but are those two passions compatible? We spoke to some Wildlife Trust staff who … fun and always have a reason behind them. I often work on a site where there are red squirrels and recently a dog caught …

Emperor dragonfly Anax imperator in flight

Wilder Blean Invertebrate Monitoring 2021-24

… Background Wilder Blean is a wilding project at West Blean and Thornden Woods, … aim of improving the condition of the nationally important Site of Special Scientific Interest, some of which is in … compartments in 2025, and the additional compartments in 2026.    References Ball L, Whitehouse A, Bowen-Jones E, Amor …

Beautiful insect-friendly plants for damp places

… to seeing them in early spring. They both have so many common names that we feel that over centuries, other people must have felt a real connection to them as harbingers of … planted actually in the water. Kent Wildlife Trust’s website includes useful tips on how to make a bog garden and …

Water Vole (Arvicola amphibius), Kent, UK - Terry Whittaker/2020VISION

Stand up for a Wilder Kent

… authorities to protect and restore nature on a large scale, in a coordinated way.  Lots of you have helped by … that the environment matters to you?  Could you ask them to commit to bringing back a strong Environment Act, as well as … across the Medway towns Keep our existing wildlife sites safe from harm, including our 450 Local Wildlife Sites …

Oyster Reintroduction in Essex with Blue Marine Foundation

… … Rob Smith heads to Brightlingsea to meet Matt Uttley of the Blue Marine Foundation to talk about his work … Blue Marine Foundation at Essex Wildlife Trust's Wigborough site to ask him why we were standing on a huge pile of … sustainable fishery to reopen. And that's enshrined in the IFCAS bylaws now, so it will allow that once the stocks have …

65 Green Actions to Start the New Year

… can do for nature this year. … 6. Switch to eco-friendly cleaning products  Making the switch can help reduce the … the car! Learn how to install a water butt from our website.  21. Plant a tree  It might surprise you, but even the … Check out our ideas for pollinator-friendly planting .  26. Grow wildlife-friendly herbs  Planting herbs will …

pegwell bay beach clean

The “Great British Spring Clean” leaves stunning beaches spotless

… Related news … The “Great British Spring Clean” leaves stunning beaches spotless … Nature heroes clear … hours at Pegwell Bay the team had collected a staggering 126kg of litter. The waste mostly consisted of fine pieces of … about this wonderful wildlife Nature Reserve visit our website .   Notes to editors Enquiries: Sally Smith: …

Great Stour Godmersham

Water pollution rules expected to be weakened by the Government

… A process for weakening the legislation on water pollution to allow more housebuilding … pressure from sewage and farm pollution – are likely to become even more polluted as a result. … Make your voice heard … protection, it is disgraceful that a nationally protected site like the Stodmarsh has been allowed to creep into poor …