Local volunteers from Slough have been trained to identify river-residents to monitor pollution in the Salt Hill Stream by WWT experts.
16 April 2019
When it comes to supporting nature, wildlife gardens are a good place to start. By creating ponds and wetland areas in our gardens - no matter how small – you'll attract wildlife like dragonflies, amphibians and birds.
16 April 2019
Easter at Arundel Wetland Centre has never been so exciting with the popular Giant Easter Duck Trail running April 6-22. Families will be able to explore our stunning wetlands while searching for giant yellow ducks hiding among the reeds, trees, and of co
4 April 2019
Biodiversity loss has long been the poor cousin of climate change. Does the launch of Our Planet, a new flagship wildlife series by Netflix, succeed in highlighting the problem?
2 April 2019
Thank you to all our supporters for getting behind WWT’s work to save wetlands in early 2019. February half-term week saw record numbers of visitors at our nine wetland centres across the UK. Across the week, a massive 47,000 people enjoyed a day out
2 April 2019
WWT is appealing for stories from young nature lovers who can trace their passion back to visiting a wetland centre on a school trip.
1 April 2019
A specific wetland programme under the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration would help the world reach its ambitious goals of sustainable development, halting biodiversity loss and tackling climate change, says WWT.
22 March 2019
A proposed ban on shooting one of England’s rarest birds is welcome, but a fundamental change in policy is needed if other vulnerable birds are to recover, says WWT.
7 March 2019
Impatient spring weather has played havoc with the routines of our wetland wildlife. Our wintering visitors have all but left for their breeding grounds and some of our summer residents have already popped up in their place. What is going on?
5 March 2019
A few days of damp weather have signaled that its spring migration time to Sussex toads! This can put them in danger as they make their way across country roads.
4 March 2019
Wetlands will receive a £600,000 boost this year thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery. The amazing players of People’s Postcode Lottery have provided WWT with more than £2 million of support over the past five years which have aided eve
7 February 2019
WWT Steart is home to rare species of dragonflies, a study has found. A host of species have been found at WWT Steart, including emerald, red-eyed and small red-eyed damselflies, brown hawker, scarce chaser and ruddy darter. Scarce chaser is Red Liste
5 February 2019
Arundel Wetland Centre invites visitors to explore their local wetland habitat on February 2, World Wetlands Day through walks and talks with WWT experts. This day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Ir
28 January 2019
Thank you to all our supporters for your time, passion and funding. Here is a snapshot of just some of the great conservation work you've helped WWT achieve in the last three months. Around the world In Madagascar, WWT and Durrell reintroduced
31 December 2018
21 Madagascar pochards, a duck thought to be extinct for 15 years, has been brought back from the brink and given a new home on a remote lake in Madagascar.
28 December 2018