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Our Projects

Discover our current projects across the county...

We are involved in lots of projects across the county focussing on various areas from Nature and Habitat and Citizen Science projects to Team Wilder initiatives.  You will find our past projects at the bottom of the page. 

Close-up image of a hazel dormouse asleep in its nest.
Nature and habitats

Dormouse Reconnected

Part of the Network for Nature project, this is an ambitious project to connect fragmented populations of critically rare hazel dormice.
A pine marten standing on a log, looking towards the camera
Nature and habitats

Two Moors partnership

Led by Devon Wildlife Trust and partners, the project aims to restore self-sustaining populations of pine martens.
View of Mendip Hills in Somerset, with sheep in forefront of the image.
Nature and habitats

Mendip Facilitation Fund

Bringing groups of farmers and other land managers together to improve the landscape.
Long Wood
Nature and habitats

Fit for Future

Woodland management project work at our Cheddar Wood Nature Reserve, increasing habitat quality for dormice, wildflowers and butterfly.
Dormouse
Nature and habitats

Habitat Management for Mendip Dormice

A 1-year funded project to help farmers and land managers to reconnect and restore habitat for one of Mendip’s most charismatic species.
Restored grasslands - Mendip
Nature and habitats

Woodland and Wildflowers

AI Partnership Funded project, working to create, enhance & restore species-rich grasslands and woodlands in the Mendip area.
Roundleaved sundew close-up I stock Leszek Wygachiewicz
Nature and habitats

Westhay Peat Restoration

A £1.2million project to restore 67Ha of degraded peatland at Shapwick Heath NNR and Westhay Moor NNR.
Birds eye view of Honeygar, Westhay
Nature and habitats

Honeygar

Honeygar is the Trust's first ‘wilded’ site - managed very differently to our nature reserves and a major project for the Trust.
Beaver
nature and habitats

Beaver Management Strategy

Produced by Somerset Wildlife Trust on behalf of Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group, South West with funding from Somerset Rivers Authority.
Nature and habitats

Adapting the Levels

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

Bogs & Bittern - Wetland Restoration for Species Survival

A 2 year project to enhance, improve and expand seven wetland habitat sites within and beyond the Avalon Marshes landscape.
Mark Ward addressing a group of volunteers at a Shoresearch event at Dunster beach
Citizen Science

Wilder Coast

Funded through the EDF HPC CIM Fund & National Trust, this project is delivering community engagement, education & volunteering initiatives.
Common swift (Apus apus) screaming party silhouetted against the sky as they fly in formation over cottage roofs at dusk
Citizen Science

Community Mapping

This county-wide project led by SERC aims to see how the biodiversity being recorded changes over time.
River Brue Highbridge
Citizen Science

Brue Green Pathways

A project that aims to promote and develop the riverside walks in Highbridge through better access, promotion, signage and habitat work.
Child looking through hand lens
Citizen Science

West Somerset Wildways

A Wilder Coast community engagement project enabling people of all ages to engage with wildlife through activities and events.
Reedbeds with a view over the water to Glastonbury tor
Team Wilder

Act to Adapt

Developing robust climate adaptation plans with and for communities in Somerset.
A wildlife garden with purple flowers and a sign reading 'pond and wildlife meadow'
Team Wilder

Wilder Communities 30x30

Projects with communities along three priority nature recovery corridors to increase the number of people taking positive actions for nature
Wilder Youth instagram graphic
Team wilder

Wilder Youth

A county wide initiative with the aim to build a Wilder Youth movement.
Blue Influencers Scheme launch
Team Wilder

Blue Influencers

The Blue Influencers Scheme’s focus is on coastal, riverside and estuary locations and emphasises giving young people opportunities.
Chub fish
Team Wilder

Wessex Water Guardians

The project focuses particularly on areas near Wessex Water assets, pollution hotspots and environmental areas of interest/importance.

Past projects

Adapting the Levels report cover
Nature and habitats

Co-adapt: Adapting the Levels

A partnership project dedicated to empowering those who live and work on the Somerset Levels to take action on Climate Adaptation.
Group walking through a field in Mendip
Nature and habitats

Mendip Wildlife Links

A project working with communities and landowners throughout East Mendip to restore and link up wildlife habitats.
View of Avalon Marshes
Nature and habitats

Avalon Marshes Wetland Wonderland

A partner project led by Somerset Wildlife Trust working with one of its Avalon Marshes Partners, the RSPB.
Ash dieback - tree canopy
Nature and habitats

Out of the Ashes

A project helping to tackle the management of Ash Dieback and ecological restoration across 300 hectares of diseased woodland.