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It was founded in 1946 by the ornithologist and artist Sir Peter Scott, initially as the Severn Wildfowl Trust. It has over 100,000 members and nine reserves with visitor centres, together covering over 20 km² which support over 150,000 birds and receive over one million visitors per year. The sites include seven SSSIs ( site of Special Scientific Interest), five SPAs ( Special Protection Area) and five Ramsar sites.

• WWT Arundel, West SussexWest Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove), Hampshire and Surrey. The county of Sussex was divided into eastern and western administrative regions, with separate county councils in 1888 but it rema
• WWT CaerlaverockWWT Caerlaverock is one of nine reserves of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in the United Kingdom (founded by Sir Peter Scott). It covers an 1400 acre (6 km²) site at Eastpark Farm, to the north of the Solway Firth and to the south of Dumfries. It is a wi, Dumfries and GallowayDumfries and Galloway is one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland. To the north it borders onto South Ayrshire, East Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire; in the east the Borders; and to the south the county of Cumbria in England. It lies to the north of t, ScotlandScotland or in Scottish Gaelic, Alba is a country and former independent kingdom of northwest Europe, and one of the four nations comprising the United Kingdom. Scotland occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Scotland took part in a p (the only centre with accommodation)
• WWT Castle EspieWWT Castle Espie is a wetland reserve managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Castle Espie on the banks of Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland. It is part of the Strangford Lough Ramsar Site. Almost the entire population of Light-bellied Brent Gees, County DownCounty Down An Dun in Irish) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, covering an area of 2,448 km² (945 square miles). The estimated population in 1992 was 416,600, a more recent figure puts it at 454,000. The county borders County Antrim and Coun, Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland is the smallest of the Home Nations of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland lies in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It covers 14,139 square kilometres (5,459 square miles), and has a populati
• WWT London Wetlands CentreWWT London Wetlands Centre is a wetland reserve managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in the Barnes area of London, England. Artificially constructed on the site of a former resevoir, it is now a SSSI ( Site of Special Scientific Interest) and is the
• WWT National Wetlands Centre, Carmarthenshire, Wales
• WWT Martin Mere, Lancashire
• WWT Slimbridge, Gloucestershire
• WWT Washington, Tyne and Wear
• WWT Welney, Cambridgeshire