Past campaigns | The Wildlife Trusts

Peter Cairns/2020VISION

Peter Cairns/2020VISION

Past campaigns

Thank you

We have a long history of campaigning for positive change for nature and people and helping local communities to save special places for wildlife, but we couldn't have done any of it without your help and continued support! Explore some of our past campaigns here:

HS2

HS2: is it worse than you think?

New evidence shows HS2 will damage more nature than is permitted, and planned repair work will be inadequate. The Government must act.…

Swift

#ActSwiftly

If you could see like a swift, you’d see how planning and farming policies affect our landscape. You'd see what happens when hedges…

campaign

Blue Belt

In August 2017, we delivered a 100m long friendship bracelet to No 10. Downing Street, asking the Prime Minister to become a Friend of…

People in Bluebells (c) Tom Marshall

Act for nature

The Nature and Wellbeing Act was a proposed piece of legislation to bring about the recovery of nature in a generation, for the benefit…

Early Oat Fields, Haregill Lodge Farm, Ellingstring, North Yorkshire

Help more farmers help nature

The way our food is grown and how our fields are farmed make a huge impact on the natural world. Nature-friendly farming is a positive…

Kingfisher

Nature deserves better

Help us to tell the UK Government that nature deserves better! The UK Government are developing targets to meet the commitments in the…

Minke whale breaching

Give our seas better protection!

Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs) would offer the best possible protections for our seas. These areas will give nature the best…

Bearded tit

State of Nature

The Prime Minister has called on world leaders to turn around nature’s decline by 2030. But there’s no commitment in law to do the same…

Highly Protected Marine Areas

Highly Protected Marine Areas could be the gold standard of marine protection: the first of their kind in the UK.

Gwent levels wildlife trust

Save the Gwent Levels

Time is running out to save the Wales's amazon rainforest. The Welsh Government want to bulldoze through the Gwent Levels to build…

Carr Wood Local Wildlife Site

Local Wildlife Sites

Local Wildlife Sites are areas of land especially important for their wildlife. They are some of our most valuable wildlife areas.

Corkwing wrasse

A Huge Wave of Support for our Seas

22,000 people give their Wave of Support for 41 proposed new Marine Conservation Zones.

Hedgehog

Rewild the Planning System

Nature's recovery should be part of planning changes.