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Wildwood Trust

Wildwood Trust Herne Common Herne Bay Kent CT6 7LQ


Welcome to Wildwood, where you can come nose-to-nose with British Wildlife past and present. We have over 200 native animals set in 40 acres of beautiful ancient woodland. See Bears, Wolves, Arctic Foxes, Bison, Deer, Owls, Foxes, Red Squirrels, Wild Boar, Lynx, Wild Horses, Badgers, Beavers and much more as you make your way around the park.
Campaign
Spotted on Site 1st Jan, 2024
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Ground-breaking wilding project welcomes the birth of two female bison calves 17th Oct 2024 Kent Wildlife Trust and Wildwood Trust, the two charities behind the Wilder Blean bison project, a ground-breaking award-winning conservation project…
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Rewilded Bison are climate heroes - new research 16th May 2024 New research from Yale University shows that 170 rewilded European Bison in Romania’s Tarcu mountains are helping to draw down and store the equivalent…
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BIAZA Woman of the Year: Laura Gardner 8th Mar 2024 For today’s International Women’s Day, we created a new award to recognise the outstanding accomplishments from those in the zoo and aquarium…
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Species Recovery Programme awards multi-million-pound grants to projects across England, helping species like godwits, choughs and crayfish. 15th Sep 2023 Yesterday (14 September), 63 native species projects have been granted a total of £14.5 million from Natural England in the Species Recovery Programme…
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The BIAZA Annual Awards 2023 - The Full List of Winners 31st Aug 2023 Each year, we recognise the achievements of BIAZA member zoos and aquariums across a wide range of categories in the BIAZA Annual Awards. Having featured…
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Wildwood Trust unites only Eurasian Elk pair in England 14th Mar 2023 A pair of Eurasian Elk are united as conservation charity behind bison rewilding project builds on its work to help combat climate change. The leading…
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Blog: Reintroducing White Storks 10th Nov 2022 We are told more about the innovative project to restore White Storks to England, a rewilding project involving multiple zoos... The White Stork Project…
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The BIAZA Annual Awards 2022 - The Full List of Winners 31st Aug 2022 Each year, we recognise the achievements of BIAZA member zoos and aquariums across a wide range of categories in the BIAZA Annual Awards. Having featured…
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Blog: The Wilder Blean Project - the historic UK Bison release 29th Jul 2022 Early in the morning of the predicted hottest day of the year, Monday July 18 2022, with an audience of both national and international press, three European…
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Bison released into the wild to tackle climate change as UK temperatures soar 18th Jul 2022 As experts predict the hottest day of the year, two leading conservation charities release bison into the wild to help tackle the climate crisis.…
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Meet the UK’s First-Ever Bison Rangers 29th Jul 2021 Kent Wildlife Trust and Wildwood Trust unveil the UK’s first-ever bison rangers who will hold an unprecedented role in this groundbreaking wilding project
Project
Rescuing brown bears 20th Oct 2016 In 2014, two European brown bears arrived at Wildwood Trust, Kent. The two bears had travelled overland from Kormissosh, Southern Bulgaria. Rescuing these bears from a canned hunt centre required a lot of planning.