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Opposite-leaved golden saxifrage

… Opposite-leaved golden saxifrage … Chrysosplenium oppositifolium … The flowers of Opposite-leaved … riverbanks and streamsides in shady areas like wet woodlands. … Opposite-leaved golden saxifrage …

beaver ham fen swimming terry whittaker

Kent Wildlife Trust welcomes golden opportunity for beavers to be wild

… Related news … Kent Wildlife Trust welcomes golden opportunity for beavers to be wild … New beaver … considered and resourced approach to support all future releases. Fantastic to see the work of local initiatives like … in 2001. At the last count, there were ten beavers on site. The beavers are contained within the 30-hectare site

Sevenoaks Greensand Commons

… Estate and managed by Sevenoaks District Council.  Hosey Common:   Hosey Common is home to Westerham Mines, which provide a crucial roosting site for rare bat species, including Whiskered bat, Brandt’s bat and Brown long-eared bat. Napoleonic allotments also remain at Hosey Common, which were …

Iain, livestock checker, standing in front of konik ponies.

Meet the volunteers checking on our grazing animals

… today? We need to raise £120,000 by the end of April to scale up our Wilder Grazing programme and bring more land back … with the Amazing Grazing appeal … What inspired you to become a livestock checker? What first attracted you to the … who are allocated an agreed day of the week and an agreed site with Livestock on that site by the Livestock Ranger.  I …

Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve

Our Plans for Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve

… angling take a more active part in the visitor experience onsite to ensure more people can engage with nature. Our plans for wilding, including … the support from BDAS in working with us to do this is welcome. … There is an urgent need to create a new visitor …

Highland Cow

Success! You helped us raise £130,386 for Amazing Grazing

… funding their future work. To ensure your full donation comes to us, make sure you change or zero-out the amount … .   … For all donations you can apply Gift Aid on top - while it’s not counted in the matched funding, it does still … our own reserves, we will simply continue to graze existing sites until opportunities for investment arise.  … The …

Orchids in meadow at sunrise

Impact Report 2019 - 2024

… Read it here … Feeling inspired? Explore more … In 2019, we launched an ambitious strategy – Wilder Kent 2030 Our Strategy outlines a clear goal: to reverse biodiversity decline and put nature in … reveals the tangible, inspiring, and sometimes sobering outcomes of our work since the launch of our Wilder Kent 2030 …

Beguiled by blues – A guide to 'Blue' butterflies

… be a holly blue. At a glance, it could be mistaken for a common blue, but seeing the underside of the wings will allow for easy separation. The holly blue has a pale, silvery underside with fine black spots, and lacks any … argus. They’re found predominantly on heathland and coastal sites, where eggs are laid on heathers and gorse. They can …

Coastal chalk erosion including cliff, cave, stack, arch and chalk reef platform. Whiteness, Broadstairs.

National Marine Week: The North East Kent Marine Protected Area

Learn more about our nature reserves … National Marine Week: … with an extensive coastal and intertidal environment comprising elements of the eastern Thames Estuary, the … the previously designated North East Kent European Marine Site, the Thanet Coast Marine Conservation Zone and Sandwich …

A rainbow over Dane Valley Woods

Biodiversity Net Gain for Farmers and Landowners in Kent

… The level of biodiversity on development sites will be determined through baseline assessments, using … government guidelines, you can sell BNG units and nutrient credits from the same land by stacking them. You can also …

Nature Heroes - Kent Wildlife Trust's Area Managers and Wardens

… Managers and their continued passion for conservation. … Learn more about nature heroes … Ian Rickards, Area Manager We are just completing the end of a two year Precious Peatlands project. … at ways of improving the quality of peatland across the site. Peat is one of the best natural carbon stores. Unlike …