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Love Your Local Nature Reserve - Widbrook Woods
Our reserves only thrive through the dedication of our conservation and volunteer teams and the generosity of supporters like you who understand their irreplaceable value. Donate today to help us protect these spaces for nature and people.
Love Your Local Nature Reserve - Smallbrook Meadows
Our nature reserves aren't just beautiful places to visit – they're lifelines for wildlife in crisis and home to many incredible but scarce species. But to enable us to do more for nature and to continue to protect these spaces which are facing real threats from development, climate change and pollution. We need the support of people like you – the locals that love our spaces.
Red Admiral Butterfly, Ellie Dodson
Natures Recovery Fund
To achieve our goal of nature being in recovery, we must carefully manage over 40 Wiltshire Wildlife Trust reserves and work in partnership with many organisations and farmer clusters across the county.
Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) in meadow in evening light in spring, Mark Hamblin/2020VISION
Project Peewit
The distinctive Peewit display of the breeding Northern Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) is as much a part of Wiltshire’s landscape and history as the rolling chalk downland on which they nest.
However, all is not well for the Lapwing. Across the UK breeding Lapwing numbers have crashed by around 60% since 1967 placing them firmly on the UK Red List.