
Family Event: Halloween Fun at West Blean
- | -Come and join us at West Blean for some seasonal wildlife crafting, a spooky trail and a warming campfire amongst the trees this Halloween.
Come and join us at West Blean for some seasonal wildlife crafting, a spooky trail and a warming campfire amongst the trees this Halloween.
Kent Wildlife Trust and CPRE Kent welcome the decision by Canterbury City Council to remove a controversial site for large-scale development in the heart of the Blean woodland complex from its 2040 draft Local Plan.
Conservationists and local volunteers are celebrating after Old Park and Chequers Wood, a unique green space on the eastern fringe of Canterbury, has been officially designated as a Local Wildlife Site (LWS).
The Blean Wildscape is a landscape-scale wilding project, covering over 12,000 hectares, including the largest area of ancient broadleaved woodland in southern Britain and seven nationally and internationally designated nature sites.
This week, pupils at Herne Junior and Herne Infants were treated to a very special experience as part of their journey to connect with local wildlife and the natural world. Kent Wildlife Trust’s education team joined forces with New York Times bestselling children’s author Alice Hemming, who visited the schools to lead creative storytelling workshops based on her book The Bison and the Butterfly.
The Wilder Blean Community Advisory Group is a space for anyone from the local community to come and share their opinions and ideas for the future of the Blean landscape. Whether you've joined a session before, or if this would be your first session you're very welcome to attend!
The Wilder Blean Community Advisory Group is a space for anyone from the local community to come and share their opinions and ideas for the future of the Blean landscape. Whether you've joined a session before, or if this would be your first session you're very welcome to attend!
The bridges will allow the UK’s only wild bison herd access to 200 hectares of West Blean and Thornden Woods in Canterbury.
Come and meet us face to face to continue building your vision for the Blean landscape. We will share the common themes that emerged from September's vision workshop and discuss what you'd like the Community Advisory Group to achieve going forward. Whether you've joined a session before, or if this would be your first session you're very welcome to attend!
Spend a morning with one of the Bison Rangers, discovering all the latest updates and joining them to try tracking the Wilder Blean herd.