Wilder Kent Blog

Learn more about the wildlife and wild places in Kent and beyond.

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Guardians of the Deep Assemble!

Kent Wildlife Trust was thrilled to hear that its Guardians of the Deep project passed the second stage of the HLF application process with flying colours. Our Marine Officer Fiona White reflects on the 2-year journey to get here.

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Hidden Gems

Our Ashford Meadows Project Officer Camilla Blackburn shares how small sites can really make a difference to wildlife.

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Re-creating meadows in Thanet

Kent Wildlife Trust’s Big Lottery funded three year project, Painting The Town Green is currently working with the local community in Newington near Ramsgate to invigorate the green spaces at St Christopher Church. Anna Morell, who works with the Project, visited the community to see what they are going wild about in early Summer.

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Reflections from a Train Window…..

Paul Hadaway, our Connectivity Programme Manager, has written for us about his reflections on conservation in the county inspired by the beauty he encoutered during a train journey.

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Bringing green spaces to Strood

Our 'Painting the Town Green' project officer, Anna Morell, writes for us about the work she and her colleagues are doing to create more green space in and around Strood.

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Building homes for barn owls

Our hardworking volunteers, Lynne & Peter Flower, have written their second blog for Kent Wildlife Trust. This time they are focusing on our work building homes for barn owls.

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Choosing and using binoculars

A lot of people contact us looking for advice on what binoculars they should buy. So we asked our excellent Biodiversity Information Officer, Paul Tinsley-Marshall, to give us his top 10 tips to ensure you get the perfect match.

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Arable Reversion at Somerden Farm

Sam Thomas, Landscape Scale Project Officer at Kent Wildlife Trust, writes for us about the East of Eden project he is leading on behalf of the Trust.