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Will you be a Wildlife Ranger this summer!?
Dusty Duck is back at WWT Washington this summer and he's more adventurous than ever! Will you take up his challenge and become one of Dusty’s Wildlife Rangers!? Dusty Duck is recruiting children of all ages at WWT Washington Wetland Centre this summer
7 July 2017
Flight of the Swans has all the vital ingredients for conservation
Last week MEPs in Brussels heard from WWT and the Federation of Associations for Hunting and Conservation of the EU (FACE) how the future of wetland wildlife lies in the hands of a diverse group that includes hunters, conservationists, policy makers and y
6 July 2017
Butterfly and Wild Plant Walk
21 June 2017
Rare birds released on the Fens in ‘conservation first’ for the UK
25 rare black-tailed godwits were released into their new home in the Cambridgeshire Fens yesterday by conservationists from RSPB and the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) as part of ‘Project Godwit’. After the eggs were removed from nests and hatch
13 June 2017
Recent Sightings
Little Grebe Cr. Russ Myners British Steel Hide Cormorant 14 Little Egret 3 Mute Swan 2 Greylag 33 Canada Goose 8 Shelduck 38 Gadwall 14 Mallard 4 Tufted Duck 5 Lapwing 1 Black headed gull 12 Lesser
9 June 2017
The campaigning is over - time to start campaigning!
The campaigning is over – time to start campaigning! This is an invitation to join us to speak up about climate change in the new Parliament. In the run up to the election, many of us campaigned hard to make sure that the environment wasn’t forgotten.
9 June 2017
"We'll always have Paris"
The US decision to withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement is an abdication of responsibility that will affect people’s livelihoods and our environment for years to come. Our response must be to redouble our environmental efforts at home and to
2 June 2017
Tiny bird drives huge changes
One of the world’s largest expanses of mudflats now has special protection thanks to one tiny bird: the spoon-billed sandpiper. The vast funnel-shaped Gulf of Mottama in Myanmar is fed by three major rivers providing rich feeding for shoals of fish and
1 June 2017
High hopes for stilts
First for reserve as rare wader hatches chicks
31 May 2017
Floating islands launched to help scoters
Artificial islands made of redundant materials from fish farms have been floated at two Scottish lochs as safe nest sites for common scoters. Common scoters are one of the UK’s rarest breeding birds. They nest at just a small number of Scottish lochs. R
24 May 2017
Royal Bank of Canada donates Chelsea garden to Martin Mere
UPDATE: The Royal Bank of Canada Garden won a showgarden Gold Award at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. It's also up for a People's Award - you can vote for it online via the BBC website. WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre staff have been to Chelsea to meet the d
22 May 2017
Rosier future for rarest duck on Ramsar wetland
The Madagascar pochard, the world’s rarest duck, has a rosier future today (International Day of Biodiversity) after the Government of Madagascar pledged to protect the wetland earmarked as its new home. A recent WWT audit of Madagascar’s wetlands id
22 May 2017
Our environment: the parties’ promises
Manifestos give a glimpse into the future: not just commitments, but the political priorities of the Parliament to come. At WWT, we’re politically impartial. We’re working with all parties to promote the strongest possible policies to protect the envi
19 May 2017
Attenborough pays tribute to Scott
Sir David Attenborough has visited WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre to pay tribute to his old friend, WWT founder Sir Peter Scott. The two broadcasters became close in the 1950s and 1960s, when Peter presented “Look” and David presented “Zooquest” fo
12 May 2017
Fenland chicks good for godwits
First chicks mark fresh future for rare fenland wading bird
12 May 2017