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Creating a new meadow

Find out how to create a new wildflower meadow and a beautiful, bee-friendly habitat for wildlife.
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Ponds

Ponds are a unique habitat for a range of wildlife. Find out more about ponds and how to create, manage and restore them.
Habitat

Ponds

Whether found in a garden or part of an agricultural landscape, ponds are oases of wildlife worth investigating. Even small ponds can support a wealth of species and collectively, ponds play a key…

Species

Fen violet

A pale member of the violet family sometimes known as ‘milk violet’, the fen violet has a delicate and unassuming appearance. A real specialist of the wetland habitat, this species has seen a…

Nature Reserve

Scarning Fen

It may be small but Scarning Fen is home a to large number of rare plants and insects. This precious site is sensitive to disturbance, so please tread carefully.

Habitat

Lowland fen

Water-logged and thick with reeds and robust tall-herbs or tussocky sedges, fens are evocative reminders of the extensive wet wildlands that once covered far more of the lowlands than they do…

Nature Reserve

Swangey Fen

A small, species-rich fenland spot, featuring scrub, mature woodland, and grassland. It was kindly gifted to NWT by the Otter Trust.

My Wild Life

My new roots

Mary moved to Birmingham for her job and has found volunteering with The Wildlife Trust the perfect way to meet new people and put down roots in a new place.

Nature Reserve

New Buckenham Common

One of the largest areas of unspoiled common land in South Norfolk. New Buckenham Common gives us a glimpse of what much of the English countryside once was: bursting with wildflowers, insects,…