London Rivers Week Guided Walk
Join us to learn about the reservoirs, ponds & streams that make up Walthamstow Wetlands and the different wildlife that inhabit them.
Join us to learn about the reservoirs, ponds & streams that make up Walthamstow Wetlands and the different wildlife that inhabit them.
Celebrate London Rivers Week by joining the team at the reserve as a citizen scientist, surveying the invertebrates in our ponds
The emperor dragonfly is an impressively large and colourful dragonfly of ponds, lakes, canals and flooded gravel pits. It flies between June and August and even eats its prey on the wing.
The UK's smallest hawker, the Hairy dragonfly is mostly black in colour, but has a distinctively hairy thorax. It can be found in grazing marshes and flooded gravel pits, and along canals…
A voracious predator that will even eat other dragonflies, the golden-ringed dragonfly is the UK's longest species. It can be found around acidic streams in moorland and heathland habitats.…
From otters to freshwater shrimps, all animals are dependant on an abundant and reliable supply of clean water. Rivers sustain the natural environment, wildlife and people in equal measure.
The London plane tree is, as its name suggests, a familiar sight along the roadsides and in the parks of London. An introduced and widely planted species, it is tough enough to put up with city…