Bedgebury National Pinetum has the finest collection of conifers in the world providing enjoyment to visitors who come to appreciate the beauty and tranquillity of this unique attraction, which nestles quietly amo ...

Dungeness is a dry shingle beach jutting out into the English Channel at Britain's most south-easterly point. Bird watching, wildlife migration and bio-diversity have been at the centre of casual and professional o ...

The Field Centre is located on the east coast of Kent, and is the base for the work of SBBOT, which has been in existence for over 50 years. It is situated in the Sandwich and Hacklinge marshes SSSI, the large flood p ...

A 16 acre site set inside an abandoned chalk quarry on the Isle of Thanet in East Kent.  Monkton Nature Reserve is managed by the Thanet Countryside Trust.  There are over 350 species of flowering plant incl ...

National Nature Reserves (NNRs) are places where wildlife comes first. They were established to protect the most important areas of wildlife habitat and geological formations in Britain, and as places for scientific r ...

New Hythe is an area of old gravel and sand workings sandwiched between Snodland and Larkfield in mid Kent. Bordered by the tidal River Medway to the east and a dual carriageway to the west, the area has an interes ...

Blean Woods is one of the largest areas of ancient broadleaved woodland in southern Britain. Woodpeckers are plentiful, while in the summer there are about 30 pairs of nightingales and several nightjars. The reserve is o ...

Cliffe Pools are a mix of saline lagoons, freshwater pools, grassland, saltmarsh and scrub. It is renowned as a site for wading birds, with massed flocks moving from the Thames Estuary onto the pools on winter high tides ...

Situated on a unique shingle bank protruding into the English Channel, Dungeness has one of south-east England's most important breeding colonies of gulls and terns. The RSPB manages the pits and pools for the large numb ...

The wet grassland of Elmley Marshes attracts thousands of ducks, geese and wading birds in the winter. Hen harriers, merlins, peregrines and short-eared owls can also be seen during the winter. In the summer, many ...