WWT-IUCN partnership will help plants and wetlands
Posted on 19th March 2013 by WWT
A new partnership has been agreed between the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) and the IUCN SSC Freshwater Plant Specialist Group (FPSG) that will improve wetland conservation and help save threatened plants. Through [...]
Continue reading5,000 schoolchildren connect with nature
Posted on 19th March 2013 by WWT
More than 5,000 school children have been given a firsthand experience of nature in just the first six months of a free school trips scheme run by WWT. The scheme is offered to children at schools in disadvantaged areas, [...]
Wetlands already full of spring heat as weather warms up
Posted on 5th March 2013 by WWT
Spring is the season of New Life but, before then, each animal must find a mate. In this wintry weather, animals of all sorts are flirting as if their life, or their legacy, depended on it. Cranes dance with each &hellip[...]
Kate Humble posts letters of inspiration
Posted on 4th March 2013 by WWT
100 years ago Captain Scott and his team bravely battled the Antarctic elements. Knowing he was about to lose that battle he wrote to his wife and urged her to get their young boy interested in nature. That letter [...]
Researchers fit satellite tags to unlock secrets of ‘lost’ geese
Posted on 20th February 2013 by WWT
Researchers in Bulgaria have taken the largest ever catch of Endangered red-breasted geese and fitted satellite tracking devices in a bid to unlock one of the biggest mysteries of the natural world. Just over ten years [...]
Big 9 challenge: TV presenters nationwide nature quest
Posted on 18th January 2013 by WWT
On 25 January TV naturalist and WWT supporter Mike Dilger starts a nationwide tour to raise awareness and money for wetlands. The quest will take in all nine WWT centres across the UK in just nine days, finishing on World[...]
Chris Packham and David Attenborough urge children to get outside
Posted on 6th November 2012 by WWT
The young naturalist is a dying breed, according to WWT Vice-Presidents Chris Packham and Sir David Attenborough. When Chris interviewed Sir David for the Radio Times, the two agreed that children today generally don’t [...]
Wild goose census this weekend after surveys hint at sudden [...]
Posted on 11th October 2012 by WWT
Survey results recently published by the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) reveal that the population of pink-footed geese may have dropped by around 100,000 in just the last two years. The majority of the world’s [...]
Study finds that spent lead gunshot continues to harm and kill [...]
Posted on 4th October 2012 by WWT
Poisoning affected one-third of waterbirds sampled and killed one in ten of those found dead Post-mortem results of thousands of UK waterbirds reveal that poisoning from spent lead shot is still a major cause of death [...]
WWT photo competition judging begins
Posted on 3rd October 2012 by WWT
WWT Photography Competition 2011/2012 closes to entries and national judging begins WWT’s photography competition for 2011/12 has closed to entries after the fourth and final seasonal heat ended on 31 August[...]
