Marden Wildlife News

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....

Our joint project with Kent Wildlife Trust, studying the movement of turtle doves between Marden farms, got off to a successful start. Licenced ringers trapped and ringed five doves and added colour rings so individual birds could be identified from thousands of...

WELL DONE - to everyone! At last night's Radio Kent Make a Difference Awards, Ray Morris was named with Marden Wildlife as winner of the Environmental category of these awards. We weren't aware until last night just how many nominations for the awards the BBC had...

We are pleased to announce that Marden Wildlife Group has won the NBN Group Award for 2021, in recognition of all of our efforts to record what wildlife we have in Marden. Below is the quote from the NBN website. Marden Wildlife, (from Kent), is the winner of the NBN...