Local Wildlife Sites
Local Wildlife Sites are areas of land that are especially important for their wildlife. They are some of our most valuable wildlife areas.
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Ray Island photo wins the public vote!
Essex Wildlife Trust’s Photography Competition 2018 winner announced
Urgent: Help protect Local Wildlife Sites
Essex Wildlife Trust urges people to call for protection for Local Wildlife Sites
Teaming up to clean Tollesbury Wick
Essex Wildlife Trust and Essex County Council join forces to tackle litter found along the Tollesbury Wick coastline.
Fingringhoe Wick Nature Discovery Park
Fingringhoe Wick was Essex Wildlife Trust's first nature reserve (1961), some years later it was where the Trust opened their first visitor centre. Sixty years on visitors are still coming…
Maldon Wick Nature Reserve
Take a stroll and admire the butteflies along the former Maldon-Woodham Ferrers railway line
Tollesbury Wick Nature Reserve
With the backdrop of the infamous red lightship, walk along the famous Essex marshes and experience wild Essex at its best
Wildlife Walk: Tollesbury Wick
Blow away the cobwebs with a bracing stroll round this excellent Essex Wildlife Trust reserve on the Blackwater estuary.
Nightingales return to Fingringhoe Wick Nature Discovery Park
Listen to the melodic sounds of nightingales as they return to Fingringhoe Wick Nature Discovery Park.
On land and at sea, the UK Government’s planning policy is a mess
As the Planning and Infrastructure Bill is set to be debated by Parliament next week, Joan Edwards takes stock.
Exhibition: A year at Fingringhoe Wick nature reserve
Inspired by Essex Wildlife Trust’s Fingringhoe Wick nature reserve, the award-winning arts and education charity, Signals, worked with young people aged 11-25 on over 50 creative workshops…
Lapwing
The distinctive rounded wings of the lapwing are displayed beautifully when it wheels around a winter sky in a massive flock. In spring, these flocks disperse and some birds breed in the UK.…