Surrey Wildlife Trust (SWT) was founded in 1959 as Surrey Naturalists' Trust and it is one of forty-six

wildlife trusts The Wildlife Trusts, the trading name of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, is an organisation made up of 46 local Wildlife Trusts in the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and Alderney. The Wildlife Trusts, between them, look after more than 2 ...

covering Great Britain, Northern Ireland,

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and Alderney. SWT carries out conservation activities on a considerable area of Surrey County Council's larg
countryside estate
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Ministry of Defence estate
As of 2022 the SWT manages more than of land for wildlife and employs more than 100 staff. It had an income of £5.1 million and expenditure of £5.7 million. As of April 2022 the SWT manages sixty-eight nature reserves. Thirty-one are

Sites of Special Scientific Interest A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of ...

, nine are

Special Protection Area A Special Protection Area (SPA) is a designation under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds. Under the Directive, Member States of the European Union (EU) have a duty to safeguard the habitats of migratory birds and certa ...

s, eight are

Special Areas of Conservation A Special Area of Conservation (SAC) is defined in the European Union's Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC), also known as the ''Directive on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora''. They are to protect the 220 habitats and ap ...

, one is a national nature reserve, twelve are local nature reserves, four are

Nature Conservation Review ''A Nature Conservation Review'' is a two-volume work by Derek Ratcliffe, published by Cambridge University Press in 1977. It set out to identify the most important places for nature conservation in Great Britain. It is often known by the initial ...

sites, two are

Geological Conservation Review The Geological Conservation Review (GCR) is produced by the UK's Joint Nature Conservation Committee and is designed to identify those sites of national and international importance needed to show all the key scientific elements of the geological ...

s, five include

scheduled monument In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorised change. The various pieces of legislation that legally protect heritage assets from damage and d ...

s and two are listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest. Surrey is a county in

South East England South East England is one of the nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes. It consists of the counties of Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Berkshi ...

. It has an area of and an estimated population of 1.19 million as of 2017. It is bordered by Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. Its top level of government is provided by Surrey County Council and the lower level by eleven boroughs and districts, Borough of Elmbridge, Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Borough of Guildford, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Borough of Runnymede, Runnymede, Borough of Spelthorne, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge District, Tandridge, Borough of Waverley, Waverley and Borough of Woking, Woking.

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Public access

*FP = public access to footpaths through the site *No = No public access *PL = public access at limited times *PP = public access to part of the site *Yes = public access to the whole or most of the site

Classifications

*GCR =

*LNR = Local nature reserve *NCR =

*NNR = National nature reserve (United Kingdom), National nature reserve *RHPG = Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest *SAC = Special Area of Conservation *SM = Scheduled monument *SPA =

under the European Union Birds Directive, Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds *SSSI = Site of Special Scientific Interest

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References

Sources

External links

Surrey Wildlife Trust website
{{featured list Surrey Wildlife Trust, Organisations based in Surrey Wildlife Trusts of England Environment of Surrey 1959 establishments in England

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