Priority species
![True Fox-sedge - long green, grass-looking fronds with yellow seed heads at the top of spikes](https://kentnature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/True-Fox-sedge-aspect-ratio-760-400.jpg)
True Fox-sedge (Carex vulpine)
2025 target
Update monitoring data for this species, with a view to verifying any decline and what management action might…
![Water Vole eating a plant](https://kentnature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Water-Vole-aspect-ratio-760-400.jpg)
Water Vole
2025 target
To retain water vole populations on all known sites and demonstrate progress in assessing county-specific status through encouraging…
![Sandwich Tern flying in front of cliffs](https://kentnature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/51270815268_2d69faad16_k-aspect-ratio-760-400.jpg)
Sandwich tern
2025 target
To retain the colony of 300 to 500 pairs in the Medway Estuary in the short-term and to…
![Lapwing relaxed in front of water](https://kentnature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/33288259792_d7c717c76a_k-aspect-ratio-760-400.jpg)
Lapwing
2025 target
> 1,000 pairs of breeding lapwing populations.
![European Eel in river](https://kentnature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/European-Eel-aspect-ratio-760-400.jpg)
European Eel
2025 target
Demonstrable progress to silver eel escapement targets in all catchments that we influence; secure access for eel to…
![Kentish Milkwort (Polygala Amarella) small purple flowers](https://kentnature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Polygala-Amarella-aspect-ratio-760-400.jpg)
Dwarf or Kentish Milkwort (Polygala amarella)
2025 target
Mapping and monitoring and action to move towards removal of this species from the brink of extinction by…
![Heath Fritillary on grass stem, RSPB Blean Woods, Kent](https://kentnature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/49998078128_6a691c7428_k-aspect-ratio-760-400.jpg)
Heath Fritillary
2025 target
Maintain a minimum of 25 interconnected colonies in Kent. Increase the area of suitable interconnected habitat within the…
![Adonis Blue butterfly on brown flower](https://kentnature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Adonis-Blue-aspect-ratio-760-400.jpg)
Adonis Blue
2025 target
To retain Adonis Blue on all known sites and locate more sites, to show an increase in the…
![Adder snake all curled up, face and red eye visible](https://kentnature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/adder-aspect-ratio-760-400-1.jpg)
Adder
2025 target
Increase by 2.5% per annum in the adder range (number of monads occupied) and overall frequency of recording.
![Swifts flying against blue sky, Stodmarsh NNR](https://kentnature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/49897894928_5262c5efde_k-aspect-ratio-760-400.jpg)
Swift
2025 target
To stop the decline of swifts by ensuring that every new house built in Kent contains one swiftbox…
![Nightingale singing on a branch](https://kentnature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/nightingale-aspect-ratio-760-400.jpg)
Nightingale
2025 target
1,450 to 1,550 singing males.
![Turtle Dove on a stone](https://kentnature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/turtle-dove-on-mossy-rock-flickr-tony-cox-1-aspect-ratio-760-400.jpg)
Turtle Dove
2025 target
To maintain the population of turtle doves in the 7 highest priority Turtle Dove Friendly Zones by 2020…
![Shrill Carder Bee on pink flower](https://kentnature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Shrill-Carder-Bee-aspect-ratio-760-400.jpg)
Shrill Carder Bee
2025 target
By 2020, an increase in the distribution of SCB bees in recording hectads (10 km x 10 km)…