Warwickshire Wildlife Trust is a Wildlife Trust and Registered Charity covering the county of

Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, and the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon an ...

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Solihull Solihull (, or ) is a market town and the administrative centre of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in West Midlands County, England. The town had a population of 126,577 at the 2021 Census. Solihull is situated on the River Blythe i ...

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Coventry Coventry ( or ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It is on the River Sherbourne. Coventry has been a large settlement for centuries, although it was not founded and given its ...

in the county of

West Midlands West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some ...

, England. The Trust aims to protect and enhance wildlife, natural habitats and geology throughout Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull. (

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, were formerly in Warwickshire and are now in the West Midlands county.)

Trust

The Trust headquarters are at Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve near

Brandon Brandon may refer to: Names and people *Brandon (given name), a male given name *Brandon (surname), a surname with several different origins Places Australia *Brandon, a farm and 19th century homestead in Seaham, New South Wales *Brandon, Q ...

. Brandon Marsh is one of 65 reserves that the Trust oversees, including Bubbenhall Wood and Meadow near Coventry, Wappenbury Wood by Princethorpe, Ufton Fields near Southam and the

River Arrow Nature Reserve River Arrow Nature Reserve is a local nature reserve located alongside the River Arrow in Alcester, Warwickshire, England. The reserve was set up by Stratford-on-Avon District Council and English Nature to benefit the Alcester community. The cre ...

Alcester Alcester () is a market town and civil parish of Roman origin at the junction of the River Alne and River Arrow in the Stratford-on-Avon District in Warwickshire, England, approximately west of Stratford-upon-Avon, and 7 miles south of Redditc ...

The trust was founded on 6 June 1957 and was originally called The West Midlands Trust for Nature Conservation Limited which split into the Staffordshire Nature Conservation Trust, Worcestershire Nature Conservation Trust and Warwickshire Nature Conservation Trust between 1968 and 1971. It was popularly known as WARNACT from warn-act over this period, until changing its name to Warwickshire Wildlife Trust in the 1990s. From 1980, together with the other two county Trusts, it withdrew from Birmingham and the Black Country when the Urban Wildlife Group was established.

References

External links

Warwickshire Wildlife Trust website
{{Authority control Organisations based in Warwickshire Organisations based in the West Midlands (county) Wildlife Trusts of England 1957 establishments in England