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Stay Wild at Home this spring with Kent Wildlife Trust

… with Kent Wildlife Trust … Kent Wildlife Trust has recently launched a new ‘Wild at Home’ series which is dedicated to … a daily dose of the great outdoors direct to our homes during these difficult times. … Stay Wild at Home this spring with Kent Wildlife Trust …

Yockletts bank showing young woodland with open light coming down to the floor carpeted by many wildflowers

Yockletts Bank

… Yockletts Bank … This must-see site for orchid aficionados has ancient woodland on a chalk escarpment with a clay cap. The slope of the …

Common glasswort

Common glasswort … Salicornia europaea … Sometimes called 'Marsh samphire', wild common glasswort is often …

Dwarf milkwort

… Dwarf milkwort … Polygala amarella … Dwarf milkwort is a rare plant of chalk and limestone grasslands with short turf; it can mainly be found …

Guardians of the Deep Kent County Show Stand

“Don’t lose your bottle”

… Related news … “Don’t lose your bottle” … Recycling plastic message to County Show visitors: Recycling plastic message …

Hothfield Heathlands in September

Learn more about our nature reserves … Hothfield Heathlands in September … Kent Wildlife Trust Volunteer Margery … migrant hawkers (dragonflies) speckled wood, gatekeeper, comma, holly blue, common blue, meadow brown, brimstone, …

Farming through natural systems with Iain Tolhurst MBE of Tolhurst Organics

… This farm has made quite a name for itself because it is able to feed 350 families on 14 acres of what is classified as … stuff that you're doing here is pretty much unique, It's completely your own plan. Your own scheme of how you go … decent yields. Iain:  Yeah, we have good yields given the site, which is not the best quality. So in fact this is …

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Rethink Sea Link

… from 24th - 27th March, mark another important moment for communities and environmental advocates to have their voices … habitat for birds, and the potential damage to vulnerable environments such as saltmarsh. These hearings have … of alternatives so that internationally protected sites are not put at risk unnecessarily. Pegwell Bay and …

Ecologist

Wilder Blean Monitoring Programme

… across different treatments. We found different plant communities in each treatment. Some species, like birch and … bracken, are most common in the bison and proxy areas, while sweet chestnut is dominant in the control area. There is … number of traps in a grid across the entire Wilder Blean site.  Read the report … Butterfly abundance and diversity …

Pine martens, feasibility studies, and what reintroduction could look like

Learn more … Now what's the difference between a weasel and … have pine marten, you're more likely to get red squirrels coming back again because they can't catch the red … and a whistle. They are basically kind of hefted to that site. So they go out every day but then they come back to …

Oliver apprentice

Celebrating National Apprenticeship Week 2026

… We're celebrating the journeys of our Kent Wildlife Trust … work consists of running volunteer task days, maintaining site infrastructure, working with livestock, delivering … entertainment along the way! … My advice I would highly recommend this apprenticeship to anyone looking to get into …