Young explorers will set off into the ‘wild’ of our nature reserves to seek out and capture a variety of minibeasts in a range of habitats and micro-habitats: hunting under log piles, in rockeries, amongst compost and in our long grass meadows.
In this workshop, learners will explore our wildflower meadows and flower beds, investigating flower structures and their purpose, looking at the roles of insects in pollination and discovering the life cycle of a plant from seed to seed.
Discover how beavers engineer their habitats in this hands-on, practical workshop for Year 1-6 which can be delivered on your school grounds or as part of a school trip to a Kent Wildlife Trust site.
Conningbrook Lakes is made up of a series of lakes, ponds, river, wet woodland and grasslands – creating a great place for a riverside stroll, and host to a variety of wildlife.
Old Park Hill has a range of habitats but needs to be managed and restored to return it to its early 20th century character, when most of the site would have been open chalk land.
Whether standing above the clouds on a winter's morning or watching the last rays of sun striking reds, purple and gold across the valley, there is always something fantastic about this place.
Bigbury Camp is an Iron Age hillfort in Howfield Wood, a short hop from the centre of Canterbury.
Ancient Woodland with large areas undergoing restoration from more modern commercial forestry.
'Relic' wood pasture, veteran trees and nationally rare acid grassland make up this site squeezed between major roads, railway lines, and the rapid urban development of Ashford.
Created from an enormous arable field in 2009, this nature reserve is building an impressive species list as it matures into a vital part of the Medway smile living landscape.
This is a site with something to see in all seasons with a fantastic display of fungi and leaf colour in the autumn, jewel bright wildflowers in the spring and summer and silhouettes of birds of prey gliding across the winter sky.
A charming area of ancient woodland of just over one hectare within a larger wet woodland complex.
