WWT London Wetland Centre is a wetland reserve managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in the Barnes area of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, southwest London, England, by Barn Elms.
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The site is formed of four disused Victorian reservoirs tucked into a loop in the Thames. The centre occupies more than 40 hectares of land which were converted into a wide range of wetland features and habitats before the centre opened in May 2000. Many wild birds which have now made their home in the Centre cannot be found anywhere else in London, and there are nationally significant numbers of gadwall and northern shoveler.