Queendown Warren Volunteer Team win Volunteering Awards
Queendown Warren Green Team are the Environmental Volunteers of the Year.
Topics: Conservation
Renewed hope for precious land at Lodge Hill
The calling-in of a decision to build on one of the most important wildlife areas in the country, home to the largest population of nightingale in England, is today welcomed by The Wildlife Trusts.
Three Kent marine areas up for possible protection, but where is the rest of the network?
The long-awaited public consultation on the next stages of Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) designation was launched on Friday (30th January).
A change in the weather
The change of weather in October took quite a bit of adjustment. Our gang of volunteers quickly changed from T-shirts and shorts to waterproofs and wellies. None-the-less our dedicated gang continued to come out in all weathers.
Harvest mice at Hothfield
Hothfield Heathlands is a SSSI listed site, owned by Ashford Borough Council and managed by Kent Wildlife Trust. It is the last remaining heathland in Kent, and one of the last remaining acid bogs in the whole of the south east.
Cross-Channel cooperation aids wildlife
Old Park Hill nature reserve, in Whitfield, and the grounds of Dover Castle were invaded last weekend by dozens of French conservation volunteers alongside their Kent counterparts in a unique task which has transformed areas once densely overgrown with scrub and non-native trees such as holm oak and sycamore.
Disappointment at decision to build on precious land
Area is the only one in the UK to be designated for nightingales.
Living legends unite to launch Remember a Charity week 2014
Kent Wildlife Trust joins Living Legends to raise awareness of the importance of legacies.
Airport decision - welcome news for Kent’s wildlife
Kent Wildlife Trust welcomes the Airports Commission’s rejection of proposals for a Thames Estuary airport.
Revival of scarce mammal thanks to partnership
The continued conservation partnership between Lafarge Tarmac and Kent Wildlife Trust is achieving dramatic results for one of Britain’s most threatened species at Holborough Marshes nature reserve near Snodland.