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Friday, May 24 2013

An Adonis Blue butterfly. Picture: Kent Wildlife Trust.

An Adonis Blue butterfly. Picture: Kent Wildlife Trust

Facts and figures about the Kent Wildlife Trust

  • Founded in 1958, the Trust is a registered charity

    • It is the leading conservation organisation covering the whole of Kent and Medway
    • It is dedicated to protecting wildlife and wild habitats for everyone to enjoy
    • Three of the Trust's sites are National Nature Reserves, the highest accolade for a site
    • In a ground-breaking move, European beaver have been given a home on a wetland site for a 10-year habitat management trial.
    • The Trust seeks to reconnect the county's wild landscaps under its Living Landscapes vision
    • It keeps a register of sites with wildlife interest of county importance
    • They cover 7% of Kent and Medway
    • The Trust employs a specialist maine team to raise the profile of sea and coastal wildlife issues
    • It runs specialist management projects, such as Roadside Nature Reserves
    • The Trust works with schools and gorups to provide educational opportunities at primary, secondary and adult levels
    • It offers a varied programme of study days
    • It runs a Wildlife Garden scheme and supports Wildlife Watch, the junior win of the partnership
    • The Trust provides ecological surveys of habitats and specialist surveys of protected species
    • It produces publications to monitor the changing status of wildlife in Kent and Medway.
    • And much more....

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