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
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 9 October with a Wildlife Day at Spitalfields City Farm and the Tower Hamlets Food Growing Network's autumn gathering)
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 June 2019
Download the 2018 Annual Report
A new page on Bees in Tower Hamlets added to the website

Planting on Holland Estate

02/10/2019 0

A wildlife-friendly playground on the Holland Estate

Tim Elliott of the Holland Estate Management Board writes: We installed a new playground on the estate this summer, in…

01/10/2019
Going batty in Swedenborg Gardens
30/09/2019
Gardening on the Tarling West Estate
25/09/2019
Greening Tom Thumb’s Arch
16/08/2019
Terns return!