Conservation
Heath Hands delivers a range of conservation programmes and environmental projects across Hampstead Heath, Highgate Wood and the Kenwood Estate. We help manage 350 hectares of amazing green space, maintaining a mosaic of important habitats, conserving wildlife and preserving the unique character of this landscape. We also work to engage visitors and get the local community involved in nature conservation.
Find out more about our work below, including the latest from our blog.
Hampstead Heath nature blog
Find out about bumblebees and how we are helping them on Hampstead Heath.
Find out more about our wildlife connectivity work around Hampstead Heath over the past year.
Find out about what we’ve recently be up to with our Hedgehog Friendly Heath project, which includes our CrowdFund campaign!
We’ve been planting trees on the Heath to mark the late Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Learn about the motion activated cameras used to monitor wildlife on the Heath.
Find out more about house sparrows and our work to support this declining species.
To celebrate National Insect Week, find out about some of the Heath’s invertebrates
Find out about our new wildflower meadow project and how you can support it
Find out about Hampstead Heath’s wetland habitats and our work protecting these
Field notes: celebrating the 150th anniversary of Hampstead Heath being saved.
It’s the season for butterflies on Hampstead Heath - read about these beautiful insects in our new blog post.
Assistant Ranger Jo shows us the benefits of flower meadows for wildlife on Hampstead Heath
Our dragonfly monitoring programmes have restarted - Rory Dimond gives us an introduction to odonata.
Stag beetles start to emerge at this time of year, so here’s an introduction to these fascinating insects.
Our ecological monitoring programmes are restarting this month, so Rory introduces one of the key species we monitor: Hampstead Heath’s grass snakes.