News
Plan for water has no bottle
The Government’s Water White Paper, Water for Life, is published today. The measures outlined could reduce water use and better safeguard wetlands but action is delayed and concerns about urban flooding and over-abstraction are fudged. Carrie Hume, Head
8 December 2011
Back to work
It was a really good staff party on Saturday night. We had lots of games including jenga, duck races and the DJ got us making items out of balloons and certain staff up dancing to entertain us! I am really starting to feel like it is coming up to Christ
6 December 2011
Darwin Scholarship Programme
The UK Field Studies Council are launching the next round of their Darwin Scholars programme, which offers professional conservationists under the age of 35 the chance to spend two weeks in the UK learning basic techniques of biodiversity monitoring and i
5 December 2011
Parties galore
We are all looking forward to the staff Christmas party tomorrow night but I also have the Friends of Martin Mere Christmas party tonight and our volunteer party next week. The Christmas decorations have gone up and the tree is up in the main concourse so
2 December 2011
Four wrongs don’t make a fiscal right
The Severn Estuary, protected by European law. WWT/James Lees Chancellor George Osborne is wrong to so readily dismiss long-standing laws protecting sites and species. He suggested in Tuesday’s Autumn Statement th
2 December 2011
Thousands of seaducks go missing
Widespread declines in birds that spend most of their lives at sea are alarming conservationists. Long-tailed duck, Wolfgang Wander Seven species of seaduck that overwinter in the Baltic – a key wintering site -
30 November 2011
Ben Osborne events
I am pleased to say that we have confirmed events next year with Ben Osborne. Ben Osbourne is official photographer for the BBC programme, Planet Earth, with Sir David Attenborough, winner of the ‘Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year’ in 2007 and
29 November 2011
In the middle of the Bird Fair
It is the second day of the North West Bies Watching Festival and it is very busy here at the moment. We had 1100 people in yesterday which I was really please with as we had a lot of rain after 1pm, but it meant all the talks were vey well attended and w
27 November 2011
Studies point to rapid changes in the waterbird world, but what does it mean for conservation?
Two studies hitting the news this week have highlighted big changes for waterbirds. On Monday, a Finnish study measured how much later wildfowl in Northern Europe are setting off on their autumn migrations. Yesterday, the State of the UK’s Birds reports
25 November 2011
Swan-up and duck down, dramatic changes revealed in the UK's waterbirds
Press release on behalf of the following partnership: British Trust for Ornithology; Joint Nature Conservation Committee; Natural England; Northern Ireland Environment Agency; RSPB; Scottish Natural Heritage; and the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust Signs o
24 November 2011
Dramatic changes revealed in UK waterbird numbers
Shoveler - Tom Hines Signs of dramatic changes for some wetland birds are reported today as some species reach their highest and lowest recorded population levels in the UK in winter. Millions of ducks, geese, swans a
24 November 2011
Computer updates
Our IT department came and spent the week with us last week to improve our network connection in the building and over to our yard were the outdoor team work. We always struggle here with wifi and internet connection due to our location so this is a wel
21 November 2011
What’s the trick to counting flocks of birds?
Wilfowl at WWT's Slimbridge reserve (James Lees) Volunteers will spend this Sunday spotting and recording the thousands of waterbirds that migrate to the UK in winter. Staff and visitors at all nine WWT wetland r
16 November 2011
Sir Peter Scott and Sir David Attenborough: the ultimate communicators of the natural world
Today, a team from the BBC Natural History Unit have been filming Sir David Attenborough at Slimbridge. WWT Chief Executive Martin Spray welcomed Sir David to the studio overlooking the Bewick's swans on the Rushy Pen, famous as the set for Sir Peter Scot
16 November 2011
New talks and offers this week
We have started a new swan talk this week called 'The secret life of swans'. We were wanting to do a general swan talk as we get hundreds of people going to the swan feed at 3pm but this does not include a talk and we felt that we wanted to give visitor
16 November 2011