Rockpooling at Lower Leas Country Park - May
-Join Kent Wildlife Trust for these family rockpooling events at Folkestone Lower Leas Coastal Park.
Topics: Beach
Great British Spring Clean at South Swale
-This Spring, make a positive impact on nature by joining us for a morning beach clean! Help us restore South Swale beach and make it safe for wildlife once again.
How to organise a beach clean
Plastic: while this modern material can be highly useful in many contexts, its durability is also a curse. When it’s discarded it’s a blight on our wild spaces, and a threat to our wildlife - both as litter, and when it breaks down, as microplastics which pollute ecosystems and weaken or kill organisms when ingested. A disheartening thought – but remember that taking action to pick up litter, however small, could help save an animal’s life.
Sandwich and Pegwell Bay
Listen to the rolling waves on the sand and shingle, breathe in the saline scents of the saltmarsh, and watch the wonderful wildlife this very important and sensitive National Nature Reserve has to offer.
South Swale
In the winter, South Swale welcomes migrating birds such as brent geese, turnstones, dunlin, avocets, osytercatchers and ringed plovers. In the summer, it's home to carpets of flowers which attract butterflies and some rare bee species!
Beaches and Shorelines
Skip the town beach and find an untamed shore to explore. Wild sand and shingle beaches are great places to see the variety of natural habitats and the amazing force of the elements that help shape them.
It's National Marine Week - join us as we celebrate our marine & coastal environment
Over the next two weeks, we will be discussing everything marine-related in Kent!
The bleak beauty of Dungeness
With its wide-open expanse of shingle beach, Dungeness is a unique wildlife habitat and makes for a family day out with a difference, writes Zoe Rawlins