Marden Wildlife News

A warm welcome to Marden for Adrienne, who is now uniquely identified as EM21975 and recorded on the international database of Turtle Doves. She has also been fitted with a GPS tag, which you can just see on her back - it will drop off when she moults at the end of...

Marden Gardeners have been helping us to raise new plants from seeds with local provenance for reintroduction in Marden for a while.  But we’re moving things up a notch this year. We now have a dedicated micro-nursery facility so that our plants have space to grow. ...

THEY'RE BACK! Our Turtle Doves are returning from their winter home in West Africa and the first two we have seen (Tina and Abraham) are birds that have made Marden their summer home for at least three years running - they were probably hatched here in 2021, or even...

7.30pm at The Marden Club, Albion Road, Marden TN12 9DT   Lee is a professional ecological consultant and member of Marden Wildlife. The talk will be preceded by our (brief) Annual General Meeting at 6.45pm. Agenda and Chair's report available from...

For the past two years we have been working with Kent Wildlife Trust (KWT) scientist Dr Kirsty Swinnerton studying the movement of the UK's fastest declining bird - the Turtle Dove. In 2022, with a special licence issued by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), our...

Marden Horticultural Society (MHS) members are using their green fingers to germinate seeds of scarce wild plants to be planted out to re-stock meadows. The plants are carefully chosen from local farmland because their range has been restricted by the agricultural...