Somerset Wildlife Trust's current and past projects.

Bitterns have been recorded on Somerset Wildlife Trust reserves for the past 10 years, and their numbers have been growing year on year. We're interested in finding out if the bitterns have spread out from the Somerset Levels and Moors, and if so, where they're going! This count is hosted on iNaturalist.

Our ‘Ponds Alive!’ project was an exciting community-led initiative which took place in West Somerset in 2025. Coordinated by Somerset Wildlife Trust volunteer Elizabeth Atkinson, it aimed to help revitalise, enhance, and increase local freshwater habitats, while also encouraging more people to get involved in citizen science to help us learn more about West Somerset’s ponds and pond life.

Charity

Thanks to £94,000 funding from European Marine Fisheries Fund, with support from the Sustainable Eel Group (SEG), we have been working to ensure that incredible eels can continue to find safe refuge in our county’s wetland habitats during their epic journey in the future.

A project supported by the Landscape Recovery scheme - one of the Government's three new Environmental Land Management schemes (ELMS).

A National Lottery funded project helping facilitate local people of all ages and abilities into taking actions to benefit wildlife in their local community, in South and East Somerset.

Despite the amazing diversity of habitats and wildlife along Somerset’s fifty miles of coastline, it often doesn’t get the attention it deserves. This vibrant piece of coastline includes sand dunes, rocky shores, cliffs, salt marsh, tidal estuaries, mud flats and coastal deciduous woodland, with 80% having environmental protection.