Surrey Wildlife Trust

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Surrey Wildlife Trust (SWT) was founded in 1959 as Surrey Naturalists' Trust and it is one of forty-six wildlife trusts covering Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man and Alderney. SWT carries out conservation activities on a considerable area of Surrey County Council's large countryside estate and also manages land on behalf of the Ministry of Defence estate. As of 2022 the SWT manages more than 6,000 hectares (15,000 acres) of land for wildlife and employs more than 100 staff. It had an income of £5.1 million and expenditure of £5.7 million.[1]

As of April 2022 the SWT manages sixty-eight nature reserves.[2][a] Thirty-one are Sites of Special Scientific Interest, nine are Special Protection Areas, eight are Special Areas of Conservation, one is a national nature reserve, twelve are local nature reserves, four are Nature Conservation Review sites, two are Geological Conservation Reviews, five include scheduled monuments and two are listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

Surrey is a county in South East England. It has an area of 642 square miles (1,660 square kilometres)[7] and an estimated population of 1.19 million as of 2017.[8] 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, Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley and Woking.[9]

  1. ^ "About Surrey Wildlife Trust". Surrey Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Find a reserve". Surrey Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Pirbright Ranges". Surrey Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 6 December 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  4. ^ "Seccombe's Wood". Surrey Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 24 October 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  5. ^ "Wentworth". Surrey Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 6 December 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  6. ^ "Whippets Cant". Surrey Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 6 December 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  7. ^ "Surrey". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  8. ^ "How is the population of Surrey changing?". Surrey County Council. Archived from the original on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  9. ^ "The County of Surrey". Visit Surrey. Retrieved 3 October 2018.


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