Tower Habitats — Wildlife for People

Germander Speedwell

Honey Bee on Lavender

Winterton House Community Garden

Ecology Park, Mile End Park

Blue Tit

Crocuses

Grey Squirrel

Swedenborg Square Orchard

Dew on grass stem

Firecrest

Sweet Violet

Feeding birds in Victoria Park

Mudchute Park

Green Roof, Canary Wharf

Hedgehog

East India Dock Basin

Guided walk, Mile End Park

Tower Habitats is the biodiversity partnership for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

This website contains all sorts of information about wildlife in Tower Hamlets, where to see it, and how to help the borough’s biodiversity, whether you are a resident or visitor, a land manager or a developer.

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Download the Tower Hamlets Local Biodiversity Action Plan 2019-24
Download our Go Wild in Tower Hamlets leaflet
Please tell us where you've seen hedgehogs, stag beetles, sparrows, bats and frogs on the Tower Hamlets wildlife survey
Join in the Tower Hamlets bee survey
Latest wildlife sightings
Our Events Calendar has been taken offline while Government advice is to avoid unnecessary social contact. It will be back up, listing all wildlife-related events in Tower Hamlets, when the coronavirus emergency is over
Cemetery Park Online - free talks on a range of wildlife-related subjects
Check out the Tower Habitats biodiversity grants for schools and community groups, available from the Tower Hill Trust
Download the latest edition of our newsletter Tower Habitats Newsflash March2020
Download the newly-published 2019 Annual Report
See our Training page for details of woodland activity leaders courses at Cemetery Park

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New beetles in Cemetery Park & Mile End Park

Local spider expert Edward Milner writes: My regular surveys of spiders and beetles in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park and Mile…

24/04/2020
Cemetery Park centipedes
21/04/2020
Harbinger habitat enhancements
03/04/2020
A week of wild flowers
02/04/2020
A new meadow at Stepney City Farm