Tag: The Wildlife Trusts

Ambitious campaign to purchase The Rothbury Estate in Northumberland receives its biggest boost to date as £30m deadline looms Within days of the announcement that the Rothbury Estate appeal had reached the £20m milestone, the largest and most ambitious single fundraising appeal in the history of The Wildlife Trusts has reached new heights.  A number of philanthropists have come forward to offer further support and pledges totalling £5.5m, joining donations from around the world to help fund the purchase of the historic Rothbury Estate for nature and the nation. Providing the biggest surge…

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The Wildlife Trusts have published their new assessment of the effects of climate change on nature across the UK. The report, Resilient Nature, shows how much-loved species and habitats are faring across The Wildlife Trusts’ 2,600 nature reserves in response to the changing climate and extreme weather over the past year.  Whilst summer’s headlines were dominated by heatwaves and drought, the report reveals that over the past 12 months it has been extreme changes in weather patterns that have been the most damaging overall, with the natural world bearing much…

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The Wildlife Trusts has announced a new £6m fund to support rewilding projects across the UK. The programme, entitled ‘Transforming Nature’s Recovery’, has been designed to help support UK nature and reverse declines in wildlife. This comes as the latest State of Nature report unveiled that a staggering 40% of UK species are declining and 15% of British wildlife are threatened with extinction. As the British Trust for Ornithology has reported, the number of wild birds in Britain has declined by 73 million over the past 50 years. With birds being an…

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