News
Celebrating our achievements!
As we wave goodbye to summer, we thought we’d cheer everyone up with a round-up of good news from across our WWT centres. There’s lots to celebrate in conservation. There were several examples of how habitat creation projects and developed habitat man
7 September 2017
UK hand-reared rare birds head south for winter
A total of 26 black-tailed godwits, hand-reared at WWT Welney in Norfolk, have spread their wings for warmer climes. The first-time adventurers were released from their aviary only eleven weeks ago and have already been sighted in various locations along
5 September 2017
Tree-mendous rain garden that mimics the Canadian wilderness is unveiled
A stunning new garden, which pays tribute to the Canadian outdoors and picked up a Gold medal at the 2017 RHS Chelsea Flower Show, has opened at WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre in Burscough. The feature, which was funded by the Royal Bank of Canada, will
1 September 2017
Science Behind Steart - New QR Codes on Reserve
WWT Steart Marshes is collaborating in a Masters project at the University of the West of England which pilots the use of QR codes on our reserve to help communicate the scientific research going on at Steart. There are three QR codes on site which you ca
29 August 2017
First ever floating aviary to save world's rarest duck
A flock of tufted ducks will spend the next ten days in the world’s first known floating aviary at the WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre, Gloucestershire as part of a trial that could save their cousins on the other side of the world, the Madagascar Pochard
25 August 2017
Environment Secretary visits WWT Steart Marshes
Environment Secretary Michael Gove visited the UK’s biggest coastal realignment project to find out how constructed wetland habitats can reduce flooding, pollution and carbon. The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) and Environment Agency’s Steart Mars
22 August 2017
10 years on - flooding lessons unlearned
(main photo: Dealing with floods WWT style - with floating wheelbarrows!) Blog by Peter Morris, WWT Head of CampaignsIt is 10 years since the UK’s worst floods on record. It’s a time to: Firstly reflect on the shock, hardship and bravery of t
19 July 2017
Big Butterfly Count 2017
Sir David Attenborough has launched 2017's annual Big Butterfly Count at WWT London Wetland Centre. You can take part by downloading a spotter's guide from Butterfly Conservation Trust's Big Butterfly Count website or downloading their app.
14 July 2017
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