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Natural carbon removals with The Wildlife Trusts
Tackling the twin nature and climate crises
The Wildlife Trusts are undertaking large-scale restoration of woodlands and peatlands. Our nature restoration projects not only sequester carbon and reduce emissions but also provide additional benefits, such as enhancing biodiversity, mitigating flood risks and drought impacts, and improving public health. These efforts also benefit communities by increasing access to nature, offering green prescriptions, creating new job opportunities, and encouraging volunteering.
High integrity carbon removals
There are opportunities to develop carbon removal partnerships with The Wildlife Trusts through large-scale projects related to the restoration of woodlands and peatlands. Our partnerships adhere to our Nature Markets Principles, which encourage responsible private investment in nature recovery, and ensure high-integrity carbon removals for our partners that bring in multiple benefits for nature and people.
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Emissions reduction or carbon removal is traceable and always happens within the UK.
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Removals are always additional, meaning they quantifiably go beyond what would happen without the project.
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Sites become part of our network of nature reserves - managed in perpetuity, which guarantees long-term management and durability of carbon stores.
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All removals are third-party verified for transparency.
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Projects deliver extra, demonstrable benefits for wildlife, people, and communities.
To explore how your organisation can invest in substantial high-quality carbon removals on a national scale, please contact us here. Alternatively, for smaller-scale carbon removal projects, find your local Wildlife Trust to discover opportunities tailored to your region. While the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT) collaborates with national partners on large-scale initiatives, local Wildlife Trusts offer impactful, community-focused projects that deliver meaningful carbon reductions at a regional level.
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Bringing back Britain’s lost rainforests
This ambitious 100-year programme aims to restore and reconnect the remaining fragments of temperate rainforest across the British Isles.
We are creating new woodlands to increase, connect and improve these precious and rare broadleaf woodland habitats. The new woodlands will sequester carbon over the next 100 years and help to slow down the flow of water in local catchments, reducing flood risk, and providing cool and shaded habitats for a range of wildlife, as well as opportunities for new livelihoods for communities within which they are sited.
Temperate rainforest restoration
