Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust

The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust is a nonprofit British organization for the protection of waterbirds and wetlands. International, this organization is the largest, which takes care of the conservation of wetlands. Patron ( patron ) is Queen Elizabeth II

The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust was founded in 1946 by the ornithologist and artist Sir Peter Markham Scott under the name " Severn Wildfowl Trust " because he felt the protection of a particular wetland committed. Today this organization has nearly 200,000 members ( 2009). Among the strategies of the organization is to buy up endangered wetlands and to stand beneath protection is. The organization has nine protected areas with a total size of 20 square kilometers, which constitute the habitat of 150,000 breeding birds. To elucidate these protected areas are equipped with visitor centers. Over a million people visit this year.

The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust is also involved in various conservation programs.