WWT flooded with awards
It’s not only the season for seeing huge flocks of migrating birds arriving at WWT Wetland Centres, it’s also the awards season and WWT is right in the thick of it!
- WWT Washington Wetland Centre has won the North East England Tourism Awards Small Visitor Attraction of the Year for the fourth time in five years. They’ll now go forward to the VisitEngland Awards for Excellence in 2015.
- WWT’s Conservation Breeding Team won the Marsh Award for Innovative Ornithology, presented by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.
- WWT Welney Wetland Centre (right) won an Outstanding award in the nature reserve category at the Green Tourism Awards.
- WWT’s Scott 100 Letters campaign – which celebrated the centenary of Scott of the Antarctic’s letter urging his son and WWT founder Sir Peter Scott to be interested in nature – won the Grand Prix at the Fresh creative design awards for our creative agency partner, 375.
- WWT Martin Mere reached the final round in three categories at the Lancashire Tourism Awards - for Large Visitor Attraction, Sustainable Tourism and Best Visitor Experience awards for their canoe and boat safari.
And there could be more awards on the way. WWT Arundel Wetland Centre has been nominated for Small Visitor Attraction of the Year at the Beautiful South Tourism Awards on 4th December.
You can vote for WWT as charity of the year, or London Wetland Centre as best loved nature reserve of the year, in the Landlove Magazine Awards online poll here
You can also vote for WWT Steart Marshes as best reserve, or Leica as best company for its support for saving the spoon-billed sandpiper, in Birdwatch magazine’s Birders’ Choice awards – they have a Facebook poll here. We also know that WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre’s Dave Paynter has been nominated by a few people in that poll for the local conservation hero award - so if you’re a fan of his appearances on Wildlife Weeklies, get nominating!
