Wonderful woodlands
These leafy, magical wonderlands provide solace, are home to wildlife and soak up carbon from the atmosphere making them an important natural solution to the climate crisis.
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Celebrating our wonderful volunteers
We are very lucky to have over 350 volunteers across nearly 40 different roles here at Somerset Wildlife Trust.
Somerset Wildlife Trust Auction
From wonderful art works to “money can’t buy” nature experiences, join us this November to secure yourself some fantastic gifts in time for Christmas, whilst raising vital funds for wildlife.
Wildlife Winners in Somerset
From boom to bust? The roller coaster ride of Somerset's flagship species over 60 years of change.
Wildlife Crime: Somerset's Key Areas
A wildlife crime is any action which contravenes current legislation governing the protection of the UK's wild animals and plants.
Somerset’s Precious Peat
There is an estimated 11 million tonnes of carbon stored in Somerset’s lowland peat — but that carbon, and the peatlands themselves, are under threat.
Tell Somerset's story
It's so important that we can monitor and record the amazing wildlife, habitats and plants we have here in Somerset, so we can understand how to protect what we already have as well as improve Somerset for wildlife. Understanding and telling Somerset's story through the wildlife and habitat data we collect is so vital for us to be able to create a Wilder Somerset 2030.
Somerset Wildlife Trust
Find out more about our volunteering opportunities.
Somerset’s changing landscapes
Somerset Wildlife Trust works to protect and restore wildlife on our nature reserves and in the wider landscape. We do this through developing the counties key landscapes through working with neighbouring landowners and other key Somerset people and organisations.
The Great Somerset Wildlife Count
Reports of wildlife loss, such as the 2020 Living Planet released by the WWF, continue to highlight the perils our natural world is experiencing. Here at SERC, we currently hold over 3 million data records. However, the majority of these are focused on protected or rare species. We have a lack of knowledge about the more common species in Somerset and so are not able to monitor trends in numbers or geographical spread. To try and address this, SERC & SWT will work together quarterly to deliver a seasonal community science survey to monitor abundance levels of common species across Somerset.
What Somerset Wildlife Trust are going to do
What Somerset Wildlife Trust are going to do regarding planning in Somerset.
Protecting Somerset's Peat
Our UK peatlands store an amazing 3.2 billion tonnes of carbon. When considered globally, this is even more impressive, as they cover just 3% of land area but in that pack 30% of all soil carbon!