2019 - What a Year!

View in your browser

Wildwood - 2019 Highlights

What a year we've had. Thank you all for visiting and supporting Wildwood in 2019. With your help, we're looking forward to continuing to protect, conserve and rewild native British wildlife in 2020. HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here are some of our highlights from 2019 (in no particular order)...

Wilding Kent Two Wilding Officers were appointed – roles jointly funded by Wildwood and Kent Wildlife Trust. The roles will take the lead in developing collaborative conservation projects throughout Kent, including the reintroduction of the red-billed chough.

Dormice Conservation Successful breeding season for hazel dormice. 16 of the 22 dormice released as part of the National dormouse project were bred at Wildwood – making a very significant contribution to dormouse conservation.

Tough Mudder Wildwood staff got wet and muddy in Surrey to raise money for wildlife conservation. One of us even fell into a swamp.

Wildwood Watch We launched Wildwood Watch; a nature awareness project at our Kent park to raise the profile of native flora and fauna thriving in the park – nest box cameras and bird feeders the first in a series of public engagement activities.

Rewilding Debate Laura Gardner, our Head of Conservation presented at Christchurch College Canterbury in the first in a series of Rewilding Debates.

Lynx Kittens We built a new lynx enclosure and welcomed two new lynx kittens to our Kent park. They both settled in very quickly!

White-Clawed Crayfish Our park at Wildwood Escot hosted a white-clawed crayfish conservation planning meeting with colleagues from Bristol Zoo, Paignton Zoo and the Environment Agency to discuss developing conservation breeding tanks at Escot.

Red Squirrel Walkthrough One our most ambitious projects was completed and we opened our new Red Squirrel Walkthrough in the Spring. It's taken some time for the residents to get used to their surroundings, but they're now very active.

Bat Filming BBC Scotland came to Wildwood to film our team of bat experts and their activities in the rescue and rehab of native bats.

Christmas Grotto We would like to thank everyone who visited our grotto this year at Wildwood Kent. It was the best ever and we look forward to seeing you all again in 2020!

New Birds Our Mandarin ducks moved from the crane enclosure to the Red Squirrel Walkthrough along with some black-necked pheasants.

Red Squirrel Workshop Wildwood is a leader in the field of red squirrel conservation breeding and hosted a training workshop on the captive breeding of the red squirrel for reintroduction. The workshop brought together red squirrel experts to present on best practice husbandry, disease surveillance, population management and reintroduction guidelines.

Flo The Arctic Fox One of our resident Arctic foxes, Bard, who moved to Scotland last year fathered a daughter who is now at our Kent park with her uncle Teddy and aunt Lyra. She's very playful!

Wildcat Babies Scottish Wildcats bred successfully again this year at Wildwood – directly contributing to the conservation breeding project for the species.

Pine Marten Monitoring Two of our conservation officers assisted the Gloucester Wildlife Trust to carry out post release monitoring of pine martens released into the Forest of Dean as part of a National pine marten conservation project.

Wildwood Trust | Copyright - © 2019 Herne Common Herne Bay Kent CT6 7LQ Registered Charity No: 1093702 Tel: 01227 712 111 info@wildwoodtrust.org If you no longer wish to receive emails from us please follow this link

Download the perfect last minute gift today!

Get the perfect last minute gift and help protect British wildlife Get the perfect last minute gift and help protect British wildlife View in your browser

How to get off Santa's naughty list!

If you have left the Christmas shopping a bit late, then we can help you get back onto the 'Nice List'. Wildwood animal adoptions last for a whole year and are the perfect Christmas gift for animal lovers of all ages. You can choose from any of the resident animals at Wildwood and all of the money raised goes towards the cost of caring for our animals.  All of our animal adoptions are available to download and can be printed at home in minutes. See our website for full details. Each digital adoption includes a photo, animal fact sheet and a personalised plaque, which will be displayed at the enclosure of the adopted animal.

Give the perfect Christmas gift in four simple steps:

Step 1 - Visit our online shop and choose which animal to adopt Step 2 - Download and print at home in minutes Step 3 - Give the gift and see their happy face Step 4 - Sit back with a smug grin and enjoy a mince pie!

We do have a limited amount of adoption packs ready for collection at the park, so please call us for more information and to check availability on 01227 712111. Alternatively, give your loved one a unique animal experience with our bears, wolves, arctic foxes or lynx. Choose your preferred animal and order your gift experience voucher quickly and easily in our online shop. Experience voucher codes are delivered by email.

Visit our shop

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas from all of us at Wildwood Trust.

Wildwood Trust | Copyright - © 2019 Herne Common Herne Bay Kent CT6 7LQ Registered Charity No: 1093702 Tel: 01227 712 111 adoptions@wildwoodtrust.org If you no longer wish to receive emails from us please follow this link