As schools around the country break for their summer holidays, it’s a clear A+ in the end of term report for Generation Wild – the Wildfowl & Wetland Trust’s innovative nature-connection programme for children from economically disadvantaged areas.
28 July 2022
On Saturday 23 July Steart Marshes launched as a dragonfly hotspot! Steart Marshes has been recognised by the British Dragonfly Society as a hotspot due to the number of species and suitability of the habitat, 21 species have been found on site so far a
27 July 2022
Swans give up resting time to fight over the best feeding spots, new research by the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) and the University of Exeter shows.
11 July 2022
The Green Recovery Challenge Fund (GRCF) running from March 2021 to 2022 has afforded WWT a valuable opportunity to support continued monitoring, research and citizen science engagement at WWT Steart Marshes.
7 July 2022
Creating wildlife-rich wetlands like ponds, streams, wetland parks and rain gardens in deprived urban communities could help level up inequalities in wellbeing across the UK, according to a new report launched today.
6 July 2022
Farmers have joined forces with conservationists from the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT), the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group South West (FWAG) and the Floodplain Meadows Partnership in the floodplain meadows of the Severn and Avon Vale to help save the curlew - one of the UK’s rarest wading birds - as part of the new Flourishing Floodplains project running from 2022-2023.
30 June 2022
Today (28 June) sees the final release of hand-raised black-tailed godwits as part of an emergency intervention which has thrown the critically endangered wetland bird a lifeline and helped increase its chances of survival.
28 June 2022
Families can join in the fun to become Junior Wetland Rangers at seven of our WWT Wetland Centres this summer holiday.
15 June 2022
A fungus discovered in an old Victorian gunpowder store at WWT Castle Espie has been revealed as a completely new species – and named Gibellula Bangbangus by BBC Springwatch viewers.
10 June 2022
WWT has joined forces with a new cross-party group of parliamentarians and Wildlife and Countryside Link on the toxic impact of lead ammunition pollution.
9 June 2022
Long days and warm nights mean that the natural world barely rests. Summer is all about raising young, growing tall and spreading seeds. Take this opportunity to stop and listen, touch and truly see the wildlife around you. Your local wetland is blossomin
9 June 2022
On 7th June 2022 the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Wetlands, chaired by Slimbridge MP Siobhan Baillie, held its first in-person meeting where MPs and peers heard about the amazing benefits urban wetlands provide and witnessed these benefits first-hand at WWT London Wetland Centre.
8 June 2022
England’s second sNNR has been declared in Somerset by Natural England on the 70th anniversary of the creation of national nature reserves.
18 May 2022
On Friday 6 May the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), as part of the UK REACH process, has published its dossier or ‘report’ with recommendations on restricting the use of all lead ammunition over all types of landscape in England, Scotland and Wales.
6 May 2022
A report from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has reinforced the importance of restoring and creating wetland habitats, such as saltmarsh, in order to combat climate change as well as deliver multiple other benefits.
4 April 2022