About Somerset Wildlife Trust

Somerset Wildlife Trust is the county's leading environmental and conservation organisation

 

Our goal is to build a landscape rich in wildlife where people live in harmony with nature. We want to restore our local landscape, and therefore recreate it, resulting in reconnecting large areas of land where where wildlife can move around and thrive.

Our vision for A Living Landscape involves enlarging, improving and joining-up areas of land on nature reserves, in towns and in partnership with other landowners. Our Living Landscape schemes in Somerset - on Mendip and the Brue Valley - are creating inspirational, accessible landscapes - full of wildlife and rich in opportunities for learning, better health and wellbeing, alongside sustainable economic development.

 

What is good for wildlife is good for people too! We have a number of well known supporters.

 

Somerset Wildlife Trust is...

* The county's largest independent conservation organisation

* a charity dependent upon its 20,500 members - some 84 per cent of our income derives from voluntary sources

* a challenging, science-based body that addresses issues from the survival of threatened species and habitats to environmental education

* an inspiring voluntary organisation that makes a difference

What we do...

* Protect rare and threatened species - from the otter and dormouse, to the large blue butterfly and the green winged orchid

* Manage around 80 nature reserves including wetlands, woodlands, meadows and moorland covering 4,000 acres

* Fight to save sites where wildlife is threatened by monitoring development

* Restore, recreate and reconnect our damaged countryside in order to build Living Landscapes

* Inspire thousands of children through school visits, family events and our Wildlife Watch Clubs

* Work with farmers, landowners, government and businesses

*Campaign for wildlife and the natural environment of Somerset

Click below to download our Annual Report, Annual Review and Strategy 2008-2012