Kent Field Club Meeting 2026

The 2026 Kent Wildlife Conference will be run again this by Kent Field Club at the University of Kent. Ts maybe of interest to our members. 

This link takes you straight to the booking page on the Kent Field Club website: https://tinyurl.com/WildConf2026 BOOK NOW! Tickets just £22 per person, or £15 for students. Includes refreshments and buffet lunch.

Talks are as follows

• Using Bioblitz data to monitor biodiversity on the University of Kent campus. Jessica Neil-Boss, University of Kent.

• Great Crested Newts: what mark-recapture can tell us that traditional surveys can’t. John Rowland, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology.

• Turtle Tally UK: A Citizen Science Survey. Suzie Simspon, Turtle Tally.

• Kent’s Nightingales - mining the data, tracking the birds, and strategies for their recovery Murray Orchard, Kent Ornithological Society.

• From records to resilience: the central role of local biological records in shaping the implementation plans for the North Kent Woods & Downs NNR. Dave Shenton, Kent Wildlife Trust.

• Online atlases: is this the way forward? Bob Foreman Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre.

• Francis Rose's legendary Flora of Kent. Geoffrey Kitchener, Kent Botanical Recording Group.

• Pan-species listing – how to become a super-naturalist. Graeme Lyons, freelance entomologist, ecologist & author.