Nature reserves
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Most people in Kent live within a few miles of a Kent Wildlife Trust nature reserve. From ancient woodlands to meadows and wetlands, they’re just waiting to be explored.
Kent Wildlife Trust Groups mission to work with people to restore, save and enhance our natural heritage has never been more important or more urgent. We must act now at a significantly increased scale of action given the interlinked nature and climate emergency that is upon us. Globally and nationally wild animals and plants are in steep decline. We are reaching critical tipping points around this loss of nature as well as around climate change. Human society cannot prosper without healthy natural systems. There is no economy without nature. The fate of future generations hangs in the balance.
To achieve Wilder Kent 2030’s vision of nature in recovery: with abundant wildlife across 30% of land and sea and being valued as a critical human life support system we need more land under our direct management, as well as greater influence over a larger geographic area, where we can ensure the greatest possible conservation impact. We will use NBS finance to pay for the doubling our own landholdings by 2030, and their subsequent long-term management. We will partner with others to extend this approach to an equivalent area of land and sea beyond our estate.
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If you're a land owner or manager who would like to learn more about how to incorporate best practise nature-friendly habitat management into your plans then please get in touch.
How we restore and protect wildlife
Habitat Management
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Kent Wildlife Trust has produced a set of habitat management advice leaflets, funded by Arcadia. These can be downloaded below.
Conservation Management at Scotney Castle and Gardens
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Join Rob Smith as he walks around Scotney Castle and Gardens learning how the team here are managing the land for nature whilst welcoming 180,000 visitors a year. Scotney manages 788 acres of land with 30 acres just dedicated to formal gardens and 300…
Partner with us
There are so many ways you can work with our teams to understand how you can manage your land for the benefit of people and nature or learn how you can harness the power of natural capital.
Darent Valley Farmer Cluster
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The Darent Valley Farmer Cluster is comprised of farmers and landowners who are committed to sustainably farming and managing this precious landscape, situated in the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Upper Beult Farmer Cluster
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The Upper Beult Farmer Cluster is facilitated by Kent Wildlife Trust, working in partnership with Southern Water.
Marden Farmer Cluster
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Marden farmers are using novel conservation and regenerative farming ideas to enhance the landscape for wildlife. Learn more about their work here.
Adonis Blue Environmental Consultants
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Adonis Blue Environmental Consultants are a team of fully qualified and highly experienced ecologists, land management advisors and marine ecologists who offer ecological surveys, conservation land management advice and marine ecology services across…
Biodiversity Net Gain
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Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is a way of creating and improving natural habitats by ensuring that development has a measurably positive impact (‘net gain’) on biodiversity, compared to what was there before development.
Wilder Carbon
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Wilder Carbon is part of the Kent Wildlife Trust Group and works with other Wildlife Trusts and a coalition of experts from business and academia to deliver high-integrity carbon units enabling investment in genuine long-term nature restoration whilst…
Wilder Grazing
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Our ground-breaking Wilder Grazing Strategy supports the nature-positive management of our estates, encouraging wildlife recovery and adaptation to the changing climate.