Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust

The Wildfowl and Westlands Trust is the United Kingdom's largest international wetland conservation charity.

It was founded in 1946 by the naturalist and artist Sir Peter Scott, initally as the Severn Wildfowl Trust. It has over 100,000 members and nine reserves / visitor centres:

• WWT Arundel, West Sussex
• WWT Caerlaverock, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
• WWT Castle Espie, County Down, Northern Ireland
• WWT London Wetlands Centre
• WWT National Wetlands Centre, Carmarthenshire, Wales
• WWT Martin Mere, Lancashire
• WWT Slimbridge, Gloucestershire
• WWT Washington, Tyne and Wear
• WWT Welney, Cambridgeshire

The centres are visited by about a million people each year. Over 4000 acres (1600 hectares) are managed by WWT. This includes seven SSSIs (Site of Special Scientific Interest), five SPAs (Special Protection Area) and six Ramsar Sites. More than 150,000 waterbirds are supported.

Patron of the charity is H.M. The Queen.

See: Conservation in the United Kingdom, List of conservation topics, Ramsar Convention, Wetlands International