Visitor centres
Our visitor centres are open 7 days a week and have hot and cold food and drink for sale, and a wildlife themed shop.
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There's plenty to do at the new Carlton Marshes visitor centre!
Volunteers are working hard preparing the new centre for its opening to visitors later this autumn. The reserve is also being prepared for wild visitors, as our migratory birds and wintering…
Lackford Lakes Nature Reserve & Visitor Centre
A wildlife oasis of lakes, reedbed, meadow and woodland near Bury St Edmunds. Experience nature all year-round from iridescent kingfisher and dazzling dragonflies, to colourful ducks and precious…
Carlton Marshes Nature Reserve & Visitor Centre
1,000 acres of wilderness in the Broads National Park, with floodplain marsh and lowland fen home to some of the largest populations of wading birds in the East of England.
Carlton Marshes Visitor Centre receives building awards
We're delighted that Carlton Marshes was recognised at the East Suffolk Quality of Place Awards with a 'Green Commendation' and 'Highly Commended' in the Community…
Wall plants
Suffolk has few natural geological outcrops, so our ancient buildings and stonework provide a unique habitat for a range of wall plants that would otherwise be unlikely to occur in the county.
Places to visit
Suffolk Wildlife Trust look after 50 nature reserves, with fantastic visitor centres at Carlton Marshes and Lackford Lakes.
The best plants for bees and pollinators
Set up a ‘nectar café’ by planting flowers for pollinating insects like bees and butterflies
Weekly wild news from our reserves – 10 March 2023
We have two weeks’ worth of news in today’s round-up, and there’s been a lot happening in our nature reserves across Suffolk. Have you ever seen a flat-backed millipede? Read on...
Weekly wild news from our reserves - 26 February
This week the Reserve Wardens have been busy hedge laying and reed cutting, creating new wetland scrapes, and admiring fabulous fungi and badger footprints.
Winter visitors
Birdwatcher Tom Hibbert is dreaming of a twite Christmas
To plant or not to plant
One of the benefits of a clean water pond is that once the hard work of digging is complete, relatively little management is required. Generally, the less done to a pond the better; something that is particularly true when it comes to planting up.