The London Wetland Centre Celebrates 10 years

Published on 30 July 2010

JTP's award-winning Peter Scott building on behalf of Berkeley Homes for the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Barnes, south west London is celebrating its 10th birthday this year.

The building is an early example of our commitment to environmental sustainability and is the centrepiece of a major engineering project that has transformed a former water treatment works and reservoirs into a natural habitat for migrating birds. As well as forming the public entrance to the wetlands, the complex contains exhibition and display spaces, a glass-walled observatory, lecture theatre, shop, gallery, restaurant and café.

Sir David Attenborough described the centre as "the ideal model for how humankind and the natural world may live side by side in the 21st century". Ten years on; two million visitors; 222 recorded bird species; an increase from five to eight species of bats, reptiles and amphibians and a near tripling of plant taxa has put London Wetland Centre firmly on the biodiversity map

The BBC's Springwatch presenter Chris Packham describes the centre as: "One of the most important conservation projects of the past century."

The centre was awarded Site of Special Scientific Interest status in 2002.

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London Wetland Centre,
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