Where to see wildlife in Kent
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These maps are intended as a guideline only; you must check the exact location of the reserve yourself. Wildlife Extra assumes no responsibility for the accuracy or usefulness of the information on this website.
- Blean Woods RSPB
- Buckland lake reserve
- Chartwell
- Cliffe Pools RSPB
- Comforts Wood
- Darland Bank Nature Rserve
- Dungeness RSPB
- Elmley Marshes RSPB
- Holborough Marshes
- Nor Marsh and Motney Hill RSPB
- Northward Hill RSPB
- Oare Marshes
- Sandwich and Pegwell Bay nature reserve
- Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory
- Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve
- Sissinghurst Castle Gardens, National trust
- Stodmarsh National Nature reserve.
- Tudeley Woods RSPB
- Wye National Nature Reserve.
Recent Kent news
- Thames airport proposals ‘catastrophic’ for wildlife
- Kent wildlife site at risk from 5,000 house development
- Short-snouted seahorse found in the Thames at Greenwich
- Bittern breeds at Kent's Stodmarsh reserve for first time in 40 years
- Colonies of two rare stalked jellyfish found in Kent
- Not one – but two rare species found at Kent reserve
- Shieldbug spotted in UK for first time
- Wild boar not bad for biodiversity in Britain’s woods
- Kent sightings confirm otters recently found every county in England
- Unusual sighting - A pink grasshopper.
- David Shepherd to talk at WildlifeXpo
- Largest single threat to England’s ancient woodland goes to public inquiry
- Judge orders National grid to stop spraying pesticide on insect rich habitat
- Black melanistic adder in Kent
- Sperm whale found on Kent beach
More Kent news
- ‘Boris Island’ remains utterly absurd, says RSPB
- 1,000 woods and 13 million trees - Woodland Trust still going strong
- Major new wildlife exhibition launched in London
- Otter recovery has reached every UK county – Except Kent
- England’s rarest bumblebees make a comeback in the South East
- Sussex & Kent Wildlife Trusts receive major grant
- Britain’s bittern population is booming
- Churchill’s many talents - War leader, Nobel laureate… butterfly enthusiast
- First sighting of purple heron chicks confirm UK wildlife first
- Unusual whale species recorded off the UK
- Record number of nightjars in Kent's Blean Woods
- Pearl-Bordered fritillary reintroduced to sites in Kent and Sussex
- Absent damselfly re-discovered in Britain after 57 years
- Rare Emerald moths discovered in Kent
- Purple herons breed for the first time in the UK
First sighting of purple heron chicks confirm UK wildlife first It's a sight wildlife lovers have been waiting for - the first purple heron chick ever to be raised successfully in the UK has taken its first flight and is learning to fend for itself. But is this news good or bad as it is further evidence of global warming?
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Purple herons breed for the first time in the UKThe first purple herons ever to breed successfully in the UK have hatched their chicks on the RSPB's Dungeness Nature Reserve in Kent. It is not yet known how many chicks have hatched and confirmation will only be possible when the young fledge in a few weeks time.
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First ever recorded Humpback in Thames found dead. A 28ft (9.5m) Humpback whale has been found dead in the River Thames near the Dartford Bridge.
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