Flying in from Wales, we’re excited to welcome Bird Team member Poppy to the Trust. With a lifelong passion for birds of prey, conservation and education, she moved all the way to Hampshire to join our team after working with birds of prey for five years in Carmarthen. Read more about Poppy below. ” Hello! My name is Poppy, and I’m thrilled to have recently joined the team here at the Hawk Conservancy Trust! Originally from Carmarthenshire in South Wales, I’ve made the big move to Andover to follow a lifelong passion for birds of prey, conservation, and education. My […]
Our Marion Paviour Award winner for 2024, Kioko has been busy in the field, with him and his team making great headway. Kioko’s project aims to reduce human-wildlife conflict and protect critically endangered vulture populations in Laikipia, Kenya. He is particularly focusing on engaging local communities and collaborating with them as a way to achieve his objectives. So far Kioko has made great progress, balancing research work in the field as well as engaging with local communities and forming positive relationships in these spaces. The team has established a growing Vulture Guardian network in local communities as well as rapid […]
We’re delighted to welcome a second intern into our Conservation, Education and Research Team! Meet Aderyn, our Conservation Education Intern, who joined us in May to support our education delivery. In her first month, she’s already been supporting school visits with welcome talks and workshops – read below to hear more about her time so far. We are grateful to the Cameron Bespolka Trust for funding this Internship. “Hello, my name is Aderyn, and this spring I had the pleasure of starting at the Hawk Conservancy Trust as the Conservation Education Intern! I have been working with children for 10 […]
We’re delighted to introduce Sorcha, our 2025 Conservation and Research Intern! We are grateful to the Cameron Bespolka Trust for funding this Internship. Over the past few weeks she’s been getting stuck in carrying out onsite biodiversity surveys, supporting our Research Assistant, Tanith, surveying small mammal populations, and so much more! ‘Having grown up visiting the Hawk Conservancy Trust, I am thrilled to be back as a Conservation and Research Intern for the next few months. It has already been a busy couple of weeks, and I have loved getting involved with the various tasks here at the Trust. I […]
We’re excited to welcome new Bird Team member, Mel, to the Hawk Conservancy Trust. Eagle-eyed readers may recognise Mel as one of our Conservation and Research Interns from 2023. She’s been settling into this new role over the last month – be sure to say hello, or perhaps a ‘welcome back’ on your next visit: ‘Hello! My name is Melanie, and I joined the Trust this spring as the newest member of the Bird Team. I’m absolutely delighted to be here, working alongside such a knowledgeable and passionate group of people – and, of course, some truly remarkable birds! With […]
With your generous support, we were able to reach our £5000 target through the Big Give Green Match Fund. With these donations doubled, we’ll receive £10,000 towards our work conserving Kestrels! We are so grateful and humbled once again by the fantastic support of our community who care as deeply for these beautiful birds as we do – thank you. Sadly, Kestrels are declining at an alarming rate in many parts of the UK. The reasons for this are unknown, and until we can figure out why, this iconic British species could be at risk of disappearing from our landscape. […]
As we get back into the hectic season of nest box checks for our Raptor Nest Box Project, we wanted to share our progress from last year! Last year our nest box network grew to over 1600 boxes, most of which fall in a core area of about 4,500Km2, although we have many placed outside that area too. Over the last couple of months our team of volunteers and our British Raptor Programme Research Assistant, Tanith Jones, have been busy building new and replacement boxes. This helps maintain and grow our network of boxes as old or broken ones are […]
We are delighted to be working with the Cameron Bespolka Trust who have kindly agreed to support some exciting educational projects. The Cameron Bespolka Trust is a charity that has been set up in memory of Cameron and his passion for wildlife. Cameron was a young naturalist who loved nature and in particular birds. He spent much of his time exploring the outdoors and visited the Hawk Conservancy Trust on many occasions where he loved getting close to the birds here, whatever the weather! The main aim of the Cameron Bespolka Trust is to inspire and encourage young people to […]
My name is Ben Cox and I am a Bird Team member and the Events Coordinator here at the Hawk Conservancy Trust. My time at the Trust is nearing its end and I wanted to take this opportunity to share with you my story and journey of working here. First of all I would like to say a huge thank you to the Trust as a whole: I have been so blessed to have worked alongside so many incredible people and Birds in my time here. The organisation has given me so much over the years, from priceless experience to […]
Transects are an essential aspect of our conservation and research with British birds of prey, where sightings of these birds along a set walked route are recorded. These surveys take place in the spring and autumn to inform us about numbers and population changes across Southern England. We caught up with our Research Assistant Tanith Jones to hear about what it’s like to walk a transect. “Spring has truly sprung and with the emergence of Snowdrops, Daffodils and some slightly warmer and sunnier days, it marks the beginning of the fieldwork season for many conservation biologists. Here at the Trust, […]
