Brookes Nature Reserve
Step into this wonderful pocket of ancient woodland and meadows, filled with wildflowers in spring and butterflies in summer.
Search
Search
Top summer reserves
Top summer reserves
Braintree Local Group
Essex Wildlife Trust's Braintree Local Group runs a range of activities, depending on what our members are interested in doing.
Wildlife mural comes to life at Braintree Village
Essex Wildlife Trust promotes sign ups to nature challenge, 30 Days Wild, with owl mural at Braintree Village.
A summer of butterfly seeking
Birdwatcher and nature enthusiast, Alan Last, added butterfly seeking to his summer agenda this year. Reporting over 1,500 individuals from June to September, Alan tells us about his experience…
How to have a wild summer
The six-week summer holiday is finally here – and with it comes time to relax, have fun, and try something new. But what if you could spend your summer doing something meaningful and enjoyable?…
Memorial reserve restrictions
Please take a look at our reserve restrictions.
Record numbers of Orchids recorded at Essex reserve
This summer has seen a surge in the number of Orchids growing at Essex Wildlife Trust’s Chafford Gorges Nature Park. Numbers continue to grow year on year, with over a thousand more Orchids…
Win big in our WILD summer raffle
The big summer raffle
Stanford Warren Nature Reserve
Walk alongside one of the largest reedbeds in Essex in this Thameside nature reserve and listen out for the famous call of the cuckoo in the summer.
Iron Latch Nature Reserve
This little pocket of woodland holds a number of treasures, with Nightingales and Glow-worms all coming out to display in the spring and summer
Visit a nature reserve
Essex Wildlife Trust manages over 100 nature reserves in Essex and 10 Nature Discovery Centres throughout Essex.