Topics: Species

Natasha Ruskin explores something terrifying: a world without woodlands.

• Campaigns and Projects
• Save Our Woodlands
• Species

Join your Talk on the Wild Side host, Rob Smith, for a journey through Marden's farms and gardens - where farmers, scientists, and keen birders are working together to make space for the rare turtle fove.

• Farming
• Habitat Management
• Regenerative Farming
• Species
• Turtle doves

Whether you’ve been recently introduced to the idea of birdwatching through something like the Big Garden Birdwatch, or you already know your robin from your nuthatch, it’s a great hobby to pick up in the winter months.

• Birds
• Species

Now what's the difference between a weasel and a stoat? Well, of course one is weaselly recognised while the other one is stoatally different. But could you tell a pine marten from either of them?

• Pine Marten
• Species
• Species Reintroductions

Chalk grassland – also known as chalk downland or lowland calcareous grassland – is an increasingly rare habitat and one of the richest in Western Europe. In England, it’s mostly found on the North Downs but there are also patches scattered along the East Kent coast.

• Chalk Grassland
• Habitat Restoration
• Nature Reserves
• Polhill Bank
• Species

Sara Booth-Card, ecologist, peatlands and Action For Insects campaigner at The Wildlife Trusts, looks out for the telltale signs of flying ant days and shares her love for the underground world of ants.

• Insects
• Species

The county of Kent is blessed with an extensive coastal and intertidal environment comprising elements of the eastern Thames Estuary, the southern North Sea and the English Channel. In north-east Kent, located between the towns of Whitstable and Deal, is the North East Kent Marine Protected Area (NEKMPA) which includes the previously designated North East Kent European Marine Site, the Thanet Coast Marine Conservation Zone and Sandwich & Pegwell Bay National Nature Reserve.

• Coast
• Conservation
• Invasive Species
• National Marine Week
• Non-native Species
• Species
• Wilder Kent Strategy

In the last fifty years, both nightingales and turtle doves have suffered a population decline of over 90%. The usual threats of habitat degradation and climate change are partly to blame, but these two species are also at risk from a few more specific challenges.

• Birds
• Nightingales
• Species
• Turtle doves

Join Coexistence Support Officer, Julia Brant, for a day at Rother Woods as part of the South East Pine Marten Restoration Project.

• Campaigns and Projects
• Pine Marten
• South East Pine Marten Restoration Project
• Species

The wettest winters and springs on record have had at least one benefit. The ponds and pools across Hothfield Heathlands are full of water!

• Dragonflies
• Hothfield Heathland
• Nature Reserves
• Species