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Projects

Cheshire Wildlife Trust runs a number of projects targeting specific habitats, plants, and animals for special attention to their conservation within the county.

Otter Video Monitoring Otter Video Monitoring Project
We are using the latest technology to look for the rare and elusive otter.
   
The common or hazel dormouse

The Dormouse Project
Cheshire Wildlife Trust has successfully reintroduced this attractive animal to Cheshire, where it become extinct around the turn of the last century. Find out more about the life of the dormouse and the dormouse reintroduction. Read the latest in our Spring 2006 Update


Small tortoiseshell butterfly on lavender

Gardening
Across the UK, we look after more than two million acres of garden - an area five times the size of Greater London. With our countryside increasingly under threat, every garden is a potential haven for wildlife.

   
European polecat Polecat Project
This distinctively-marked small carnivore had almost disappearing from our countryside. CWT is monitoring the remarkable recovery of the polecat
   
Harvest mouse with it's nest

Harvest Mouse Project
This tiny and illusive mouse has been disappearing from our countryside, due to changes in agricultural practices. CWT is working alongside Chester Zoo to bring back the harvest mouse .

   
Sites of Biological Importance Recording our SBIs is vital to protect rare species and habitats
   
Countdown
Countdown is a program to conserve biodiversity by creating Action Plans for threatened species and habitats in Cheshire

 

 

Newly released harvest mouse
Released harvest mouse with radio collar, part of
the Harvest Mouse Project
 

 

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