Wilder Kent Blog

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

Nature Reserves A group of common seals together in the sea.
Common seals, photo by Russel Miles

How to protect our marine areas

Nina Jones, Protected Area Warden takes a moment ahead of National Marine Week to explain what we can individually and collectively do to help restore and protect nature on our coasts.

Talk on the Wild Side

Why Bugs Matter & what you can do to help

This is Talk on the Wild Side. I'm Rob Smith, and in this episode, bugs matter. And bugs really do matter. Don't just take my word for it. As Sir David Attenborough no less puts it, if we and the rest of the backboned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse.