National Marine Week 2025 - Celebrating Our Coast with Partners and the Public
Protected Area Warden Nina Jones reflects on this year's National Marine Week: a lively celebration of Kent’s marine and coastal environment.
National Marine Week: Meet the Coastal Explorer Interns!
Adonis Blue Environmental Consultants (ABEC) is a part of the wider Kent Wildlife Trust Group. This National Marine Week, let's explore what the ABEC Coastal Explorer Interns have been up to in their first month with us!
Inspiring the next generation through our Education Programme
At Kent Wildlife Trust, we are working hard to create a Wilder Kent, but this isn’t something we can do alone. That’s why Goal 2 of our Wilder Kent 2030 strategy is to Inspire and Collaborate: working with people and communities across Kent to take meaningful action for nature, now and in the future. Our education work lies at the very heart of this goal.
Transforming Hoathly Farm into a wildlife utopia
Within the landscape around Lamberhurst, Furnace Farm and Scotney Castle stand out as two areas where Kent Wildlife Trust (KWT) is making a real difference. Furnace Farm is a former intensively managed farm, now moving toward a haven for wildlife and the grounds of Scotney Castle are managed by KWT using some of our cattle. This joined up landscape approach is hugely important for wildlife, offering corridors and refuges in a landscape that isn’t always favourable. Now there is an incredible opportunity to expand this landscape even further.
Prevention is better than a cure – a ‘wasted’ opportunity to tackle mass scale illegal fly-tipping?
Conservationists say they welcome the government’s announcement around tougher penalties for fly-tipping, but a co-ordinated approach is needed to tackle the root of the problem.
The power of citizen scientists: What you can do this April & beyond
Are you a citizen scientist without realising it?
United we stand: Why nature and farming need each other
Our Hoathly Farm Appeal, which aims to purchase Grade III arable land and transform it into a wildlife haven, has sparked lively debate. Some fear that wilding will harm food security, but in truth, it can enhance and support farming.
Justice for Hoad’s Wood?
Imagine a quiet, picturesque woodland in Kent, ancient trees standing tall, carpets of bluebells swaying in the breeze, and wildlife thriving in their natural habitat. Now, picture that same woodland buried beneath 35,000 tonnes of waste, dumped illegally over months while authorities played a game of bureaucratic hot potato. This is not a dystopian fiction; this is the story of Hoad’s Wood.