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The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust is a wildfowl and wetland
Wetland

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 conservation
Conservation movement

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 charity
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The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust is a wildfowl and wetland
Wetland

File:Mangrove trees in Everglades.JPGA wetland is an area of land whose soil is saturated with moisture either permanently or seasonally. Such areas may also be covered partially or completely by shallow pools of water....
 conservation
Conservation movement

The conservation movement also known as nature conservation is a political, social and, to some extent, scientific movement that seeks to protect natural resources including plant and animal species as well as their habitat for the future....
 charity
Charitable organization

The definition of charitable organization, and of charity, varies according to the country and in some instances the region of the country in which the charitable organization operates....
 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. Its patron is Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

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It was founded in 1946 by the ornithologist
Ornithology

Ornithology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of birds. Several aspects of the study of ornithology differ from closely related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and the aesthetic appeal of birds....
 and artist
Artist

The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art....
 Sir Peter Scott
Peter Scott

Sir Peter Markham Scott, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire, Distinguished Service Cross , Royal Society, Zoological Society, was a United Kingdom ornithologist, conservationist, Painting, naval officer and sportsman....
, initially as the Severn Wildfowl Trust. It has over 130,000 members and nine reserves with visitor centres, together covering over 20 kmē which support over 150,000 birds and receive over one million visitors per year. The sites include seven SSSIs (site of Special Scientific Interest
Site of Special Scientific Interest

A Site of Special Scientific Interest or SSSI is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom. SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in Great Britain are based upon them, including National Nature Res...
), five SPAs (Special Protection Area
Special Protection Area

A Special Protection Area or SPA is a designation under the European Union directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds.Member States of the European Union have a duty to safeguard the habitat of Bird migration and certain particularly threatened birds. ...
s) and five Ramsar sites.

  • WWT Arundel
    WWT Arundel

    WWT Arundel is one of nine wildfowl and wetland nature reserves managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, a nature Conservation ethic Charitable organization in the United Kingdom....
    , West Sussex
    West Sussex

    West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex , Hampshire and Surrey. The county of Sussex has been divided into East and West since the 12th century, and obtained separate county councils in 1888, but it remained a single ceremonial counties of England until 1974 and the coming into force of the Local Government...
  • WWT Caerlaverock
    WWT Caerlaverock

    WWT Caerlaverock is wetland nature reserve in southwest Scotland, one of nine reserves in Britain operated by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust founded by Sir Peter Scott....
    , Dumfries and Galloway
    Dumfries and Galloway

    Dumfries and Galloway is one of 32 Council areas of Scotland of Scotland. To the north, it borders onto South Ayrshire, East Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire; in the east the Scottish Borders; and to the south the county of Cumbria in England....
    , Scotland
    Scotland

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     (the only centre with accommodation)
  • WWT Castle Espie
    WWT Castle Espie

    Castle Espie is a wetland reserve managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust on the banks of Strangford Lough, three miles south of Comber, County Down, Northern Ireland....
    , County Down
    County Down

    County Down is one of the nine Counties of Ireland that form the province of Ulster and one of six counties that form Northern Ireland. The county forms an area of ....
    , Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland

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  • WWT London Wetlands Centre
    WWT London Wetlands Centre

    WWT London Wetland Centre is a wetland reserve managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in the Barnes, London area of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, by Barn Elms....
  • WWT National Wetlands Centre
    WWT National Wetlands Centre

    WWT National Wetlands Centre is one of nine wetland nature reserves managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, a nature Conservation ethic Charitable organization....
    , Carmarthenshire
    Carmarthenshire

    Carmarthenshire is a subdivisions of Wales in the South West Wales of Wales and one of thirteen counties of Wales. Its three largest towns are Carmarthen, Llanelli and Ammanford....
    , Wales
    Wales

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  • WWT Martin Mere
    WWT Martin Mere

    WWT Martin Mere is a wetland nature reserve managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Burscough, Lancashire, England, on the West Lancashire Coastal Plain, six miles from Ormskirk and ten miles from Southport ....
    , Lancashire
    Lancashire

    Lancashire is a Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of Historic counties of England in the North West England of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea....
  • WWT Slimbridge
    WWT Slimbridge

    WWT Slimbridge is a wetland reserve managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, England. Slimbridge is halfway between Bristol and Gloucester on the estuary of the river Severn....
    , Gloucestershire
    Gloucestershire

    Gloucestershire is a Counties of England in South West England England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....
  • WWT Washington
    WWT Washington

    WWT Washington is a wetland reserve managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Washington, Tyne and Wear, Tyne and Wear, North East England. The site is part of James Steel Park....
    , Tyne and Wear
    Tyne and Wear

    Tyne and Wear is a metropolitan county in North East England England around the mouths of the Rivers River Tyne and River Wear. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....
  • WWT Welney, Cambridgeshire
    Cambridgeshire

    Cambridgeshire is a Counties_of_the_United_Kingdom#England in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex, England and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west....


See also

  • Conservation in the United Kingdom
    Conservation in the United Kingdom

    This page gives an overview of the complex structure of environmental and cultural conservation ethic in the United Kingdom.With the advent of devolved government for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and of evolving regional government for England, the responsibilities for environment and conservation in the United Kingdom have become m...
  • List of Conservation topics
    List of conservation topics

    This is a list of conservation topics. It is a list of articles relating to conservation biology and conservation of the natural environment....
  • Ramsar Convention
    Ramsar Convention

    File:RAMSAR-logo.gifThe Ramsar Convention is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands, i.e., to stem the progressive encroachment on and loss of wetlands now and in the future, recognizing the fundamental Ecology functions of wetlands and their economic, cultural, scientific, and recreational val...
  • Wetlands International
    Wetlands International

    Wetlands International is a global non-profit organisation dedicated solely to the work of wetland conservation and sustainable management.It was founded in 1954 as the International Wildfowl Inquiry and the organisation was focused on the protection of Anatidae....
  • Malcolm Ogilvie
    Malcolm Ogilvie

    Dr. Malcolm A. Ogilvie is a United Kingdom ornithology and freelance natural history author and consultant. One of his specialisms is wildfowl....


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