Somerset Wildlife Trust

Somerset Wildlife Trust

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Type	Registered Charity
Headquarters	Taunton, Somerset
Official language	English
Parent organization	Wildlife Trusts partnership
Website	Somerset Wildlife Trust

Somerset Wildlife Trust is a wildlife trust covering the county of Somerset, England.

The trust, which was established in 1964, aims to safeguard the county's wildlife and wild places for this and future generations and manages almost 80 nature reserves. Examples include Westhay Moor, Long Wood and Langford Heathfield. It has over 20,500 members and 500 volunteers.^[1]

The Somerset Wildlife Trust is part of the Wildlife Trusts partnership of 47 wildlife trusts in the United Kingdom.

In 2010 the organisation won a Biffa Award for their "Restoring Habitat for Dormice in Somerset" scheme.^[2]

In 2011 the Trust appealed for £100,000 from local residents and businesses to restore former peat diggings on the Somerset Levels.^[3]

Nature reserves

The Nature reserves include: (* = Reserves designated as Sites of Scientific Interest)

Aller and Beer Woods* Aisholt Wood Babcary Meadows* Bickham Wood Bishopswood Meadows Black Rock* Boon's Copse Brimley Hill Mire Bubwith Acres* Burtle Moor* Catcott Reserve* Chancellor's Farm* Cheddar Wood* Cheddar Wood Edge Cockles Fields Cook's Fields Dommett Wood Draycott Sleights* Dundon Beacon Edford Woods and Meadows* Fivehead Arable Fields* GB Gruffy* Gilling Down* Great Breach and Copley Woods* Green Down* Greylynch Harridge Wood Holford Kelting* Hollow Marsh Meadow** Horsehill Coppice Huish Moor Jan Hobbs King's Castle Wood| Kings Hill Gully Langford Heathfield* Long Wood* Lots Grassland Lynchcombe Mascall's Wood Middledown Mounsey* New Hill & Tannager* Payton Marsh Perry Mead Prospect Fields* Quants* Rewe Mead Ringdown Ruggin*| Sharpham Moor Plot* South Hill Street Heath* Sutton's Pond Tealham Moor* Thurlbear Wood* Tor Hole Fields Ubley Warren* Velvet Bottom Wellington Castle Fields West Coker Fen Westhay Heath* Westhay Moor* (National Nature Reserve) Withial Combe Yarley Fields Yarty Moor* Yoxter Range

See also

• List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset

References

1. "Somerset Wildlife Trust". The Tree Council. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
2. "Somerset Wildlife Trust". RSA. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
3. "The Somerset Wildlife Trust issues urgent appeal: Help us save the Somerset Levels". Wells People. Retrieved 23 October 2011.

External links

• Somerset Wildlife Trust website
• Somerset Wildlife Trust, Registered Charity no. 238372 at the Charity Commission