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 new 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
Download the Events Calendar (updated 13 November with a community tree planting day in Mile End Park on 30 November)
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 October 2019
Download the 2018 Annual Report
Additional information on scarce bees added to the Bees in Tower Hamlets page

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Rare spider found in Cemetery Park

Local spider expert Edward Milner writes: At the end of October the pitfall traps just by the Soanes Centre in…

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New pond for Olga Primary School
23/10/2019
A jolly day of tree planting in Jolly’s Green
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Council launches biodiversity blueprint