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…
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Nature Reserves
Essex Wildlife Trust is the county's leading conservation charity. We have 11 Nature Discovery Centres, 87 Nature Reserves, 2 Nature Parks and manage 8,400 acres of land.
Monitoring our nature reserves
How does our ecological monitoring programme work?
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…
Dogs on nature reserves
A position statement from Essex Wildlife Trust about dogs on nature reserves.
Nightingales return to Fingringhoe Wick Nature Discovery Park
Listen to the melodic sounds of nightingales as they return to Fingringhoe Wick Nature Discovery Park.
Volunteering on our nature reserves
Hear from one of our wonderful volunteers to tell you more about volunteering on a nature reserve.
Danbury Ridge Nature Reserves
Danbury Ridge Nature Reserves are a wonderful mosaic of woodland, common, heathland, streams and bogs
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
Over 5,000 winter birds counted at Margaret’s Hide, Fingringhoe Wick Nature Discovery Park
Each winter, thousands of coastal birds flock to Margaret’s Hide at Fingringhoe Wick Nature Discovery Park.
Top 12 seasonal nature reserves
Our top 12 Essex Wildlife Trust reserves to visit this winter.