Get Involved
Individuals & Local Communities
- Volunteer with the Kent Wildlife Trust or become a member - take your family on a wildlife fun day at one of the 4 visitor centres in Kent or a wildlife-walk.
- Volunteer with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds or become a member - carry out a survey of the birds that visit your garden and help RSPB to monitor bird numbers in Kent.
- Volunteer with Natural England and help to conserve a National Nature Reserve near you.
- Volunteer with the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers train as a pond warden and provide advice to pond owners in your area.
- Contact your local countryside project to find out more about practical conservation projects near you: take part in planting a hedgerow, restoring a reedbed or building a toad fence - (Kentish Stour Project, Kent High Weald Project, Medway Valley Countryside Project, Medway Swale Estuary Partnership, Mid Kent Downs Project, North West Kent Countryside Project, Romney Marsh Countryside Project, Thanet Coast Project, White Cliffs Countryside Project)
- Record where and when you catch sight of wildlife and send your record to the Kent & Medway Biological Records Centre.
- Take part in Kent Shoresearch with the Kent Wildlife Trust scour the coastline for wildlife.
- Find out more about how to conserve wildlife in your area: take part in activities with the Kent Bat Group, the Kent Mammal Group, Kent Badger Groups, Kent Ornithological Society or Kent Reptile & Amphibian Group.
Local Authorities
- Go to the Kent Landscape Information System - find out where there is greatest opportunity to restore UK BAP priority habitats in your district.
- Work with the Kent Biodiversity Partnership to raise the profile of the Kent BAP: recognise the contribution that planning decisions can make in meeting Kent BAP targets.
- Read Supplementary Planning Guidance for Biodiversity Conservation for all you need to know about biodiversity in the context of planning in Kent.
- For more information on a particular species - learn more about how to conserve wildlife in your area by getting in touch with the Kent Bat Group, the Kent Mammal Group, Kent Badger Groups, Kent Ornithological Society or Kent Reptile & Amphibian Group.
- Learn more about how you can integrate Kent BAP targets as part of your local development framework - contact the Kent BAP Co-ordinator for more information.
- Learn more about how you can integrate Kent BAP targets as part of your local community strategy - contact the Kent BAP Co-ordinator for more information.
- Learn more about how you can integrate Kent BAP targets as part of your open space strategy - contact the Kent BAP Co-ordinator for more information.
