Topics: Wilder Kent Strategy

Here's how to make your Halloween sustainable, from trick-or-treating more responsibly to using the entire pumpkin.

• Blue Influencer
• Halloween
• Sustainability
• Wilder Kent Strategy

For many, a natural material like cotton may seem like the wise choice when shopping for clothes but when we take a closer look at cotton crops and production, the environmental costs begin to rack up.

• Sustainability
• Wilder Kent Strategy
• Wilding

In episode 10 of Talk on the Wild Side, Rob Smith spends a day at Moat Farm for a Healthy Hedgerows workshop. He speaks to a self-confessed hedge geek, a hedgelaying expert and conservationist, a local landowner, and the host of the workshop.

• Conservation
• Farmer Clusters
• Farming
• Food and Farming
• Hedges
• Talk on the Wild Side
• Wilder Kent Strategy

By August, floral glory has passed from the orchids (heath spotted, southern marsh and a few large hybrids) to the heather or ling. As ever, we hope for a protracted display of purple in the heathy areas, which is likely if the cool nights persist. Orchid seed is now ripening. Dust-like, dispersed on the wind, the seed contains no nutrients to support germination so needs a mycorrhizal fungus to supply nutrients from the soil to its roots. From seed to flowering takes three years or more.

• Hothfield Heathland
• Nature Reserves
• Volunteering
• Volunteers' Week
• Wilder Kent Strategy

During the 50 years or more that I have been involved with studies on the coasts of Kent and Sussex, I have seen considerable change to the inshore marine environment and its fauna and flora...

• Coast
• National Marine Week
• Wilder Kent Strategy

The Making Space for Nature Project is leading on Kent and Medway’s Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS). A team has been in place since October, engaging with stakeholders about nature recovery plans for Kent's future.

• Coast
• Local Nature Recovery Strategy
• Making Space for Nature
• National Marine Week
• Wilder Kent Strategy

July is Disability Pride Month, a time to celebrate the achievements of people with disabilities and to advocate for greater accessibility and inclusion.

• Accessibility
• Disability Pride
• Diversity & Inclusivity
• Wilder Kent Strategy

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

The annual pinnacle of Kent Wildlife Trust’s ‘Wilder Volunteering Recognition Programme’ is the Wilder Kent Volunteer Awards that we are proud to host in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust.

• Volunteering
• Wilder Kent Strategy

For those of you reading this, many will feel disheartened by the fact that nature and wildlife were barely mentioned during the election campaign and debates. However, the result of the election did suggest that green issues are starting to take hold.

• Election
• Nature-based Solutions
• Wilder Kent Strategy