The Wildlife Trusts are a federation of 46 independent wildlife conservation charities covering the whole of the UK. We manage nature reserves, help children to learn about nature and campaign to protect our seas.

The Wildlife Trusts are a charity that works to protect wildlife on land and at sea, and bring people closer to nature. We believe that a healthy wildlife-rich natural world is valuable in its own right and is also the foundation of our wellbeing and prosperity; we depend on it and it depends on us.

Information about wildlife species and habitats in the United Kingdom (UK). Explore more than 1000 pages of wildlife information and facts.

In May 1912, a month after the Titanic sank, banker and expert naturalist Charles Rothschild held a meeting at the Natural History Museum in London to discuss his idea for a new organisation to save the best places for wildlife in the British Isles.This meeting led to the formation of the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves. Rothschild's vision was to identify and secure protection ...

Find your local Wildlife Trust and discover more about their amazing work to tackle the nature and climate crises near you.

The Wildlife Trusts is a movement made up of 46 Wildlife Trusts: independent charities who all share a mission. Each Wildlife Trust is a member of a central charity – the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, more widely known as The Wildlife Trusts (TWT). Meet our board of trustees and read our charitable objectives and Annual Impact Reports. Find out more about our Patron, …

Get expert Biodiversity Net Gain advice, BNG assessments, and ecological surveys for your development from The Wildlife Trusts. Our local consultancies provide guidance from planning to post-development, ensuring desirable and nature-friendly projects. Partner with us for the best biodiversity gains.

$44 trillion - The economic value generation that is moderately or highly dependent on nature – over half the world’s GDP. World Economic Forum, 2023 Businesses are vital in tackling the climate and nature crises and fundamental to delivery of the Global Biodiversity Framework, adopted by 196 ...

Protecting places to save their wildlife and habitats has been at the heart of what we do since we were founded more than 100 years ago. Today The Wildlife Trusts care for more than 2,300 nature reserves - woods, meadows, marshes, city parks. At sea we campaign for Marine Protected Areas - parts of the seabed where wildlife is protected. Find out more about the …

This report, for the first time, calls for people’s access to nature to be set in law. Planning – a new way forward: how the planning system can help our health, nature and climate, comes at a critical time for the Government’s Planning White Paper and the recently announced “pause” on planning reform.The newly named Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has a huge ...