NWT's vision for Norfolk
We seek a sustainable environment for people and wildlife:
- where the future of wildlife is protected and enhanced through sympathetic management
- and people are connected with and inspired by Norfolk's wildlife and wild spaces
The Wildlife Trusts celebrate 100 years of nature conservation
On 16 May 1912 a banker named Charles Rothschild got together with like-minded enthusiasts to whip-up support for a radical idea: to identify and protect the very best of the UK’s wild places. Thus began the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves which would later become The Wildlife Trusts movement – the first time that anyone had come up with a vision for nature conservation.
Before 1912, the emphasis was on trying to protect individual species. Rothschild’s plan was different: to safeguard the places where wildlife lived – the moors, meadows, woods and fens under attack from rapid modernisation.
Read more about the centenary of The Wildlife Trusts, and how Norfolk led the way.
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With its broad head and long, wide tail the otter has a very distinctive appearance and is easily...
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