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The globe's most vulnerable communities are to benefit from a worldwide survey on wetlands

A WWT survey that invites anyone anywhere in the world, familiar with a wetland environment, to contribute will allow experts to take steps to help protect some of the globe’s most at-risk communities. Until now, monitoring and correlating the condition

11 July 2017

Dusty’s Wildlife Rangers at UK Wetland Centres this summer

Children of all ages can join Dusty Duck, pick up their very own log book and become real-life wildlife rangers at WWT Wetland Centres across the UK this summer holiday. A full day of discovery and adventure awaits families with a wide variety of wildlife

11 July 2017

Lead-ing by example

A deadline is imminent for the UK to report on its progress in complying with lead poisoning protection. The source of the poisoning is some of the 6,000 tonnes of lead ammunition deposited across the UK each year.

10 July 2017

Flight of the Swans has all the vital ingredients for conservation

Last week MEPs in Brussels heard from WWT and the Federation of Associations for Hunting and Conservation of the EU (FACE) how the future of wetland wildlife lies in the hands of a diverse group that includes hunters, conservationists, policy makers and y

6 July 2017

Rare birds released on the Fens in ‘conservation first’ for the UK

25 rare black-tailed godwits were released into their new home in the Cambridgeshire Fens yesterday by conservationists from RSPB and the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) as part of ‘Project Godwit’. After the eggs were removed from nests and hatch

13 June 2017

Tiny bird drives huge changes

One of the world’s largest expanses of mudflats now has special protection thanks to one tiny bird: the spoon-billed sandpiper. The vast funnel-shaped Gulf of Mottama in Myanmar is fed by three major rivers providing rich feeding for shoals of fish and

1 June 2017

High hopes for stilts

First for reserve as rare wader hatches chicks

31 May 2017

Floating islands launched to help scoters

Artificial islands made of redundant materials from fish farms have been floated at two Scottish lochs as safe nest sites for common scoters. Common scoters are one of the UK’s rarest breeding birds. They nest at just a small number of Scottish lochs. R

24 May 2017

Royal Bank of Canada donates Chelsea garden to Martin Mere

UPDATE: The Royal Bank of Canada Garden won a showgarden Gold Award at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. It's also up for a People's Award - you can vote for it online via the BBC website. WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre staff have been to Chelsea to meet the d

22 May 2017

Rosier future for rarest duck on Ramsar wetland

The Madagascar pochard, the world’s rarest duck, has a rosier future today (International Day of Biodiversity) after the Government of Madagascar pledged to protect the wetland earmarked as its new home. A recent WWT audit of Madagascar’s wetlands id

22 May 2017

Attenborough pays tribute to Scott

Sir David Attenborough has visited WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre to pay tribute to his old friend, WWT founder Sir Peter Scott. The two broadcasters became close in the 1950s and 1960s, when Peter presented “Look” and David presented “Zooquest” fo

12 May 2017

Fenland chicks good for godwits

First chicks mark fresh future for rare fenland wading bird

12 May 2017

Can swans and geese be aggressive?

Are some birds more aggressive than others? Not according to new research by WWT.

8 May 2017

Are swans more aggressive than other birds?

Are swans more aggressive than other birds? The rumour that 'a swan can break a man's arm' is well known, but is there any truth in the rumours that swans are dangerous? A new study investigates.