Conservation projects

From humble beginnings in breeding and releasing small mammals we’ve built up an impressive portfolio of native species reintroductions.

Through effective partnership working, we have introduced European Bison to Kent for the first time in the UK, with the aim of restoring 600 hectares of ancient woodland.

We are helping return the European Beaver back to Britain as part of a fenland restoration project.

In 2023 we successfully released the first group Red-Billed Chough, a culturally iconic species, to the skies above Dover; the first time the chough has been wild in Kent for over 200 years.

Wildwood has bred and reintroduced many species; water voles as part of development mitigation work, red squirrels onto Anglesey Island and into parts of North Wales, and dormice into suitable areas of former range.

We are proud to be a collaborative organisation and, with like-minded conservation partners, we are now working towards the reintroduction of wildcats across Britain, pine martens to the south of England, and breeding White Clawed Crayfish in Devon.