Wildwood Trust: Preserve our Pine Martens

Preserve our Pine Martens

A donation doesn’t just support endangered Pine Martens today …..

Tonight at 7pm, courtesy of the BBC’s The One Show, you can see nest box film footage of our pine marten mother giving birth to and rearing her lively family.

This incredible recording is not only delightful, it is rare. Almost as rare in fact as the creatures it portrays.

Remarkably, this is the Wildwood Trust’s sixth successful year of breeding thanks to the dedication, skills and understanding of the entire team who work tirelessly to ensure that conditions are perfect to bring about these happy and precious events.

Their skills have been perfected as part of our captive breeding programme in order that we can support the return of the Pine Marten to England in areas where we know they once lived.

As a Charity, resources are tight and in order to continue, Wildwood Trust needs your support to ensure we see kits in our nesting boxes again this Spring. Please help our Pine Martens by donating whatever you can afford at our MyDonate page.

THANK YOU!

How we might use your gift:

£10 - feeds a pine marten family for a week
£15 - buys a bespoke, hand built nesting box
£50 - contributes to essential veterinary care and medical supplies
£60 - buys an HD weather and pine marten resistant camcorder to monitor the birthing and rearing process
£100 - contributes towards furthering knowledge about the species
£150 - contributes to the installation of an onsite scientific feed-monitoring facility

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For further enquiries, please contact:

Veronica Chrisp - veronica@wildwoodtrust.org

Dan Farrow - dan.farrow@wildwoodtrust.org

Wildwood Trust: +44(0)1227 712 111

ABOUT WILDWOOD

Wildwood Trust opened in 1999 as a centre of excellence for the conservation of British wildlife, and was established as a registered charity in 2002. Wildwood is Kent's best British wildlife park. Home to over 200 native animals, past and present and set in 40 acres of beautiful ancient woodland, see wolves, bison, deer, owls, foxes, red squirrels, wild boar, lynx, wild horses, badgers and beavers plus many more. As one of the leading British animal conservation charities in the UK Wildwood Trust is dedicated to saving Britain's most threatened wildlife. Wildwood Trust have taken part in many ground-breaking conservation programmes to date, which include, saving the water vole, using wild horses to help restore Kent's most precious nature reserves, bringing the extinct European beaver back to Britain and returning the hazel dormouse & red squirrel to areas where they have been made extinct.