North East families looking for some fun with a difference this summer are heading to a Wearside wetland reserve to become fully-fledged Junior Wetland Rangers. Young visitors to Washington Wetland Centre are getting hands-on with real-life rangers durin
2 August 2022
Families across the North East can follow in the muddy footsteps of Washington Wetland Centre’s rangers this summer, with a host of daily hands-on activities designed to teach conservation skills while having fun outdoors. Read on for our Top Tip
25 July 2022
A duck on the verge of becoming critically endangered has successfully bred at a Wearside wetland reserve. Four Meller’s ducklings – one of the world’s rarest and least known species of waterfowl – hatched on 7 July at Washington Wetland Centre
19 July 2022
With the heat rising again across the region, why not bring your temperature down on a visit to our wonderfully cooling wetlands? Let the kids splash around in our wet play area - complete with giant working tap and Archimedes screw - while you chill o
14 July 2022
Have you got what it takes to help save wetland nature? Be a Junior Wetland Ranger this summer and find out!Families across the North East can follow in the muddy footsteps of Washington Wetland Centre’s rangers this school summer holiday, with a host o
13 July 2022
New plan calls for urban wetlands to help ‘level up’ inequalities in wellbeing
6 July 2022
To recently hatched white-headed ducklings have taken their first steps outside
6 July 2022
Today is #InternationalMudDay. We love mud here at Washington Wetland Centre, but it is something that is so often overlooked. It offers a great food source, protection and is a huge carbon store. Here's just a handful of the reasons why we think mud is t
29 June 2022
We're very excited here at Washington Wetland Centre as we continue through what is turning to be a very successful summer breeding season around our wild reserve. There are LOTS of youngsters around pretty much everywhere you look, whether that be chir
22 June 2022
Last month we celebrated the arrival of our first ever common crane chick and, one month later, it’s still thriving! Hatching on 9 May, the common crane chick was welcome news for the 15 year old adults who have been at the wetland centre since 2008.
16 June 2022
Cockchafer beetles are known for their noisy slightly clumsy flight and 'feathered' antennae, but they were also once on the decline due to the use of pesticides in the 1900s. Also known as a May bug, doodlebug or if you want to go really fancy, melolont
6 June 2022
When it comes to animal care, our living collection team are second to none at picking up when something is just a little bit off. So when Asian short-clawed otter mum Mimi wasn't acting herself, they jumped into action to investigate... During the norm
1 June 2022
It’s not quite as impressive as a platinum jubilee, but today our wonderful wetlands turn 47-years-old. Happy birthday to us! When our doors opened that spring morning in 1975 – at a cost of 40p for adults and 20p for children – we wonder if the te
29 May 2022
Our black swan cygnets have gone from strength to strength since they hatched in March. At about 5 times their original size, the cygnets are thriving and looking more and more like their parents. Their downy feathers are now displaying tell-tale signs
19 May 2022
This week is invasive species week and we wanted to highlight a key invasive plant species that we actively manage here at WWT Washington. Crassula helmsii (also know as New Zealand pigmyweed) is a non-native invasive plant oringinally found in Australia
17 May 2022