Description
The organisation has a 40 hectare reserve at Park Hall near Minworth and the much smaller Richmond Garden in Soho, Birmingham. The Trust also manages Moseley Bog and has a close involvement with reserves such as Moorcroft Wood Local Nature Reserve and Hill Hook Local Nature Reserve. The Trust operates a number of environmental centres including the Centre of the Earth and the Birmingham EcoPark.
It is a full member of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, (one of 47 covering the whole United Kingdom), and was the first urban Wildlife Trust and has a membership of over 11,000.
The trust carries out a wide range of activities to protest and develop biodiversity and engage with local people and various nature conservation, community and education projects. They carry out research, surveys and campaigns. Each year it co-ordinates International Dawn Chorus Day.
Their President is Professor David Bellamy OBE, and Vice Presidents are Professor Chris Baines, Professor Ian Trueman and Peter Shirley MBE. The Trust is managed by a council of trustees drawn from the membership. The Trust has a full time Chief Executive, Neil Wyatt, about twenty other full, part-time and contract staff and many active volunteers. They produce a regular newsletter, Wildlife Focus, which provides coverage of their activities and a range of urban wildlife issues.
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