Marden Wildlife News

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...

Our thanks to Ian Beavis for his fascinating talk at The Marden Club on ‘The Bees of Kent’ – bees and much more!

In the coming year, Professor Rebecca Cassidy, an anthropologist at Goldsmiths, University of London, will be exploring apples and orchards, their social and cultural value and meaning, in a project funded by the Leverhulme Trust. We’ll also be searching for the...

Marden has many scarce plants that indicate the influence of the Ancient Woodland (the Roman forest of Anderida) and its remnants in Bridgehurst Wood and old hedgerows. These include species that only spread very slowly and require special conditions to germinate....