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 here
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Join in the Tower Hamlets bee survey
Latest wildlife sightings
Download the Events Calendar (updated 14 September with new "Nature and Us" events in Shandy Park and Mile End Park)
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 August 2018
Download the 2017 Annual Report
Free "Nature and Us" training courses by Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park in Sep-Oct 2018

Nathusius' Pipistrelle

18/09/2018 0

New guidance on bats and lighting published

The Institution of Lighting Professionals (ILP) has launched the latest practical guidance on considering the impact upon bats when designing…

22/08/2018
New wildlife habitat in the Wapping Canal
20/08/2018
Boosting biodiversity in the Flowerpot Garden
08/08/2018
No hedgehogs in Victoria Park
30/07/2018
Subterranean Clover found in Mile End Park