Kent Wildlife Trust

Kent Wildlife Trust (KWT) is a conservation charity in the United Kingdom that was founded in 1958, previously known as the Kent Trust for Nature Conservation. It aims to "work with people to restore, save and improve our natural spaces" and to "ensure that 30% of Kent and Medway – land and sea – is managed to create a healthy place for wildlife to flourish". In 2023, they have reported over 30,000 members and an annual income of £8 million. KWT manages over ninety nature reserves in Kent, of which thirty-seven are Sites of Special Scientific Interest, three are national nature reserves, five are Special Areas of Conservation, four are Special Protection Areas, six are local nature reserves, thirty-eight are in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and one is a scheduled monument.

Kent is a county in the southeastern corner of England. It is bounded to the north by Greater London and the Thames Estuary, to the west by Sussex and Surrey, and to the south and east by the English Channel and the North Sea. The county town is Maidstone. It is governed by Kent County Council, with twelve district councils: Ashford, Canterbury, Dartford, Dover, Folkestone and Hythe, Gravesham, Maidstone, Thanet, Tonbridge and Malling and Tunbridge Wells. Medway is geographically part of Kent but is a separate unitary authority. The chalk hills of the North Downs run from east to west through the county, with the wooded Weald to the south. The coastline is alternately flat and cliff-lined.

Public access

 * FP  = Access to footpaths only
 * NO  = No public access to the site
 * YES  = Free public access to all or most of the site
 * PP  = Public access to part of the site

Classifications

 * AONB = Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
 * GCR = Geological Conservation Review site
 * LNR = Local nature reserve
 * NCR = Nature Conservation Review site
 * NNR = National nature reserve
 * Ramsar = Ramsar site, an internationally important wetland site
 * SAC = Special Area of Conservation
 * SM = Scheduled monument
 * SPA = Special Protection Area
 * SSSI = Site of Special Scientific Interest

Wildlife
The Wilder Blean project, headed up by the Wildwood Trust and Kent Wildlife Trust, is introducing European bison to a 2,500-acre conservation area in Blean, near Canterbury. The reintroduction to the UK in 2022, the first time in 6000 years, will consist of a herd of 3 females and 1 male.