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Rewilding Cornwall's seas: the challenges and opportunities of marine conservation work
As part of our celebrations to mark National Marine Week, we caught up with Cornwall Wildlife Trust's Marine Conservation Officer, Matt Slater, to get the lowdown on all things marine.
Volunteering Opportunities
Browse our current volunteering opportunities and help wildlife in your local area. There are volunteering opportunities across the UK, from supporting events, to community gardening and species surveying.
Volunteer for Wildlife
Volunteers work with us to create a Wilder Cornwall
Opportunity to buy Penwith land creates ‘buzz’ of excitement for rare bee
Cornwall Wildlife Trust has the opportunity to purchase an additional 53 acres of land neighbouring Bartinney nature reserve on Penwith peninsula, increasing this much-needed haven for wildlife,…
Work Experience and Work Placements
Our work experience week and work placements opportunities are a great way to learn new skills, meet like-minded people and decide whether a job in conservation is for you.
Power of the people: the volunteers transforming Helman Tor
Mid-Cornwall Reserves Officer Alex reports on the incredible impact that a small team of volunteers has made on Cornwall Wildlife Trust's largest nature reserve
Volunteers lay hedges for Cornish wildlife
Volunteer groups from Cornwall Wildlife Trust and Cornwall Council have teamed up to lay a stretch of new hedge at Millennium Woods near Penzance. The result is a dense, living hedge which…
Volunteers create Cornish hedge at Millennium Woods
Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s Wild Penwith volunteer group has built and repaired over 100 meters of Cornish hedge over the years but living, “green” hedges are a fairly rare feature of the Penwith…
Dedicated marine strandings volunteers produce gold standard citizen science
Cornwall Wildlife Trust hails 20 years of the Marine Strandings Network. Over 250 volunteers gather data which help us better understand marine life in Cornish waters
My kind of festival
Erin has spent 25 years connecting people and wildlife as part of Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust’s team that delivers events and open days at sites across the county including the annual Skylarks…