Topics: Species

Atlantic salmon are drifting towards extinction, but we can help them leap back from the brink.

• Fish
• Species

This year, Kent Wildlife Trust, in collaboration with Wildwood Trust and Sussex Wildlife Trust, Ashdown Forest and Forestry England, is beginning to explore the social and ecological feasibility of reintroducing pine martens to Kent and Sussex, while co-developing a ten-year strategy with a wide range of stakeholders to restore the species in the South East.

• Campaigns and Projects
• Pine Marten
• Species
• Species Reintroductions

Habitat fragmentation poses significant threats to biodiversity and climate stability. In our lifetimes, we’re witnessing dramatic changes in the landscapes around us and the species that inhabit them.

• Habitat Management
• Habitat Restoration
• Habitats
• Respecting Nature
• Species

Meet the fascinating array of Kent's amphibian world. Amphibians are small vertebrates that need water, or a moist environment, to survive.

• Amphibians
• Species

Known for its bandit-like appearance, the polecat was once so persecuted it was on the brink of extinction in the UK. Thankfully, numbers are now increasing in rural Wales and parts of England.

• Species

The writer H E Bates moved from Northamptonshire to Little Chart Forstal in 1931. His deep knowledge of the countryside coloured all his writing. In ‘Through the Woods’ (1936), with fine wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker, he wrote in loving detail about the plant and animal life in Coldham Wood, which lies due west of the Extension section of Hothfield Heathland.

• Birds
• Heathland
• Hothfield Heathland
• Plants
• Species

Did you know there are amazing creatures that work together to form a colony, living and thriving as a single unit? What are these fascinating beings and what do they look like? Find out more in our guides below.

• Marine
• Species

Unbelievable and beautiful. See some of the sponges and sea squirts that live in our oceans using our species explorer guides.

• Marine
• Species

Learn about all the shapes, colours and forms of seaweeds and seagrasses in Kent using our handy species explorer guides.

• Marine
• Species

Use our species explorer to identify and learn out about the starfish and sea urchins that live in the coastal waters around Kent.

• Marine
• Species