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.

If you would like to join our mailing list to receive newsletters and other information about biodiversity in Tower Hamlets, please enter your e-mail address below:

Download the Tower Hamlets Local Biodiversity Action Plan here
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
Download the Events Calendar (updated 15 April with new "Nature & Us" events in Shandy Park and Swedenborg Gardens)
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 March 2019
Download the 2018 Annual Report

Green roof at Canary Wharf

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Tower Hamlets tops London’s green roofs league

On 10 April, Shirley Rodrigues, London’s Deputy Mayor for the Environment, launched a report which shows the speed with which…

03/04/2019
Community tree planting in Tower Hamlets parks
04/03/2019
Enhancing wildlife habitats in Meath Gardens
19/02/2019
New homes for birds and bats in Tower Hamlets parks
13/02/2019
An orchard in Bob’s Park