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Flooded saltmarsh at
Gibraltar Point in 1953
(photo by Fred Clift)

100 years of nature conservation

In May 1912 Charles Rothschild held a meeting to discuss his radical idea about saving places for nature. It led to the formation of the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves, which would become the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, and signalled the beginning of UK nature conservation as we know it.

The Society worked hard to secure Government protection for sites across the UK they considered ‘worthy of preservation’, but it was not until the 1940s that nature conservation made it onto the statute with the National Parks & Access to the Countryside Act in 1949. This enabled the newly formed Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust to establish Gibraltar Point as its first nature reserve.

Celebrating 100 years of protecting places for wildlife

Landmarks in the history of the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust

Buy the book "Trustees for Nature" and DVD "Nature in Trust & An Eye for the Country"

Discover Lincolnshire's wildlife and wild places on our events... everything from gentle strolls in nature reserves to pond dipping and wildlife identification training.

Beachcombing with a purpose

Get involved with the largest wildflower survey of road verges.
Volunteers are needed to help survey 700 miles of roads and to discover which are the most important road verges for wildlife in the Lincolnshire Wolds.

The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust's vision for our seas is one of Living Seas where wildlife thrives from the depths of the ocean to the coastal shallows.

This is beachcombing with a purpose: a way of surveying the beach and recording what's found. Throughout the year we are running a monthly Shoresearch at various locations on the Lincolnshire coast.

For 60 years, the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust has been safeguarding wildlife havens. Now we must expand these and create a Living Landscape where our nature reserves are an integral part of the wider functioning landscape and not isolated oases.