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Walthamstow Wetlands Summer News 2020
Walthamstow Wetlands has welcomed summer with a flurry of wildlife activity and visitors. During these testing times where covid-19 has affected every corner of the globe, Walthamstow Wetlands has…
London Assembly’s Park Life report welcomed
Park life: ensuring green spaces remain a hit with Londoners
Small mammals find a home in west London’s woods
Capital’s woodlands are providing a lifeline for secretive shrews, voles and wood mice, a remarkable new survey reveals
London plane
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…
Reconnecting London’s Woodlands: Funding Secured for London Wildlife Trust’s ‘Reuniting Sydenham Hill Wood & Dulwich Wood’ Project
London Wildlife Trust has received a generous £1,020,000 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to advance the 'Reuniting Sydenham Hill Wood & Dulwich Wood' project.
The Rewild London Fund
Successful applicants of the Rewild London Fund have been granted funding to improve, restore or create wildlife-rich habitats that will address the effects of climate and ecological emergency. The £850,000 fund, delivered by the London Wildlife Trust with commitment from Amazon’s Right Now Climate Fund, will support 22 projects with around 116 hectares of priority habitat to be restored or created.
Grasslands in west London benefit from £37k grant
Boost from Heathrow Community Fund for London Wildlife Trust’s conservation work in Hillingdon.
Can London become wilder?
My attendance at the inaugural meeting of the Mayor of London’s Rewilding Taskforce last week, prompted me to draw on some earlier thoughts around rewilding and how this might be applicable to a…
Beavers have been returned to West London for the first time in 400 years
Today a family of five beavers have been reintroduced to a site in West London after a 400-year absence. 'Bringing Beavers Back to Ealing' is a Rewild London Fund project, delivered in…
Water vole
The water vole is under serious threat from habitat loss and predation by the American mink. Found along our waterways, it is similar-looking to the brown rat, but with a blunt nose, small ears…