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…
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Wild About Ponds
Our Keeping it Wild Project Trainee Dexter provides some tips on how to get started with your very own wildlife pond, no matter how little space you may have.
Ponds help Dragonfly Detectives crack the case
Garden ponds prove fruitful for London Wildlife Trust’s citizen science survey of dragonflies and damselflies
Spotter sheet: Charlston Ponds - Morden Hall Park
What wildlife can you spot along your walk?
Common pond skater
The common pond skater can be seen 'skating' over the surface of ponds, lakes, ditches and slow-moving rivers. It is predatory, feeding on small insects by detecting vibrations in the…
How to create a mini pond
Even a small pond can be home to an interesting range of wildlife, including damsel and dragonflies, frogs and newts. Any pond can become a feeding ground for birds, hedgehogs and bats – the best…
How to build a pond
A wildlife pond is one of the single best features for attracting new wildlife to the garden.
Greater pond sedge
A tussocky sedge, Greater pond sedge has stout, upright flower spikes, strap-like leaves and triangular stems. It prefers lowland wetland habitats on heavy soils.
Park Road Pond
An important site for amphibians in Uxbridge.
A series of insect portraits at Gunnersbury Triangle
Illustration student and London Wildlife Trust volunteer Tara Louise Hughes has created a trail of beautiful wood-burned insect portraits to discover among the trees, ponds and brambles.
South Walk
This south London Walk takes you from Carshalton Ponds to Morden Hall Park, stopping off at Wilderness Island
New accessible wildlife pond opened at Walthamstow Wetlands, in collaboration with Illumination's Migration
An exciting collaboration brings London Wildlife Trust together with Universal Pictures to celebrate the release of Illumination’s Migration.