Annual Review 2013 Saving the small things that run the planet

Buffish mining bee (Andrena nigroaenea) © Ed Phillips

A word from Matt Shardlow, CEO; ‘United for Bugs’ is the bold title Partnerships were vital to achieving an EU wide of Buglife’s new strategy, in which precautionary ban on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides. we set out how we’ll go about Buglife first called for a ban to protect bees and other “Saving the small things that run pollinators in 2007 and brought other NGOs on board the planet”. Our new focus is with the campaign through our sound, evidence based on conserving pollinators and approach. This year we also secured our first bug reserve freshwater invertebrates. We will use our expertise, passion – Canvey Wick Nature Reserve, only possible because and influence to lead on these important issues. Fixing of a great partnership with the RSPB and Land Trust. the pollinator crisis and securing healthy freshwater In December we were delighted to hear from the will bring great benefits for people and for wildlife. Environmental Funders Network that our sector rates Given the scale of the task, Buglife must continue Buglife as having the highest impact per pound spent to build effective and professional partnerships. of any independent environmental charity. Portrait image © Helen Shardlow Fallin Bing, Scotland: from Success in conserving South New website Our first Welsh project coalfield to brownfield West crayfish Our new website has been a really It’s been a busy year for our West Glamorgan Stepping Stones exciting change for us. Social media project. Working with local entomologists we carried out We have been busy exploring, capturing and sharing An estimated 70% of the South West’s native White-clawed crayfish populations and features like blogs and forums mean surveys to learn more about the wildlife that is taking refuge the story of coal mining and local heritage at the have been lost since the 1970s. The threat of extinction, particularly due to the that the site is more engaging for users. on these important brownfield sites. We recorded a wide range village of Fallin, near Stirling. Through the HLF All spread of the non-native American signal crayfish, prompted Buglife and other The website has enabled us to provide of species including rare butterflies, beetles, moths and flies. Our Stories funded project, local people have been organisations to form the South West Crayfish Partnership Project in 2008. useful tools that help to raise awareness involved in bug hunts, wildflower meadow planting Over winter we worked with project partners Swansea City of the importance of invertebrates, like the and scrub removal at the Bing, a brownfield haven. The Crayfish project came to an end in 2013, after achieving some fantastic Council, Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council, Amphibian Brownfield Hub and the Planning section. milestones, including: moving more than 4,000 and Reptile Conservation and local volunteers to manage the We’ve been threatened crayfish to 14 Ark sites, captive breeding project sites for invertebrates, reptiles and other wildlife. Tasks filming volunteers over 1,300 crayfish in an innovative programme at have included heathland management and scrub thinning at work, wildlife Bristol Zoo and teaching over 1,600 school children in order to maintain a variety of habitats across the sites. at the Bing and about White-clawed crayfish and the wildlife in interviewing their local rivers. locals about their Despite this positive action, White-claws remain life at Fallin; all under considerable threat, so a new five year plan Practical concluding in is in place for this work to continue into the future. © Andrew Whitehouse Conservation a digital record allowing our project work to be shared and shown at local Twitter community Small pearl-bordered fritillary events well Six-spot burnet moth (Zygaena ( ) © Scott Shanks followers: Boloria selene into the future. filipendulae) © Suzanne Bairner

Education 14.2K & advocacy Fundraising Expenditure Media reach: e-Newsletter B-Lines 2013 sign ups: Wide strips of wildflower habitat are now mapped across the north of England, with insect pollinator 53 corridors set out across Yorkshire, , 4933 Cumbria, Lancashire and Greater Manchester. million London B-Lines are also under development with partners. Policy & We’ve continued to carry out vital habitat works campaigning Research, on the ground, increasing the quantity and quality of wildflower-rich habitats within mapped B-Lines. survey During 2013, we carried out work on approx. 50 & advice © Clare Dinham hectares of wildflower-rich grassland in Yorkshire alone. In Sunderland and we have Amount started a new project which will restore several V&A Green Roof important ‘stepping stones’ of habitat, and create Charitable Activities (1,2,3 & 4): £1,154,667 Neonicotinoids Working in partnership with the Green Roof Consultancy new meadows on urban green space over the we installed London’s first wetland green roof during We celebrated a significant victory in 2013 when coming two years. 2013, on the iconic Victoria & Albert Museum. The 1. Practical Conservation £391,240 the EU introduced a partial temporary ban on three roof was transformed into a towering oasis featuring a of the five neonicotinoid insecticides, found to be wildflower meadow, areas of bare ground, deadwood 2. Education & advocacy £283,566 harmful to pollinators and other invertebrates. We’re piles and a mini wetland habitat; all designed to provide now working to extend this to a full permanent food and shelter for wildlife including bees, butterflies 3. Policy & campaigning £185,610 ban, and for the EU to assess the remaining two and moths. chemicals. Working with ClientEarth, we have written 4. Research, survey & advice £294,251 to the UK Government challenging their decision The V&A’s beehives are near to the green roof, and to only review the effects of neonics on pollinators, resident bees have already been seen visiting the Fundraising £233,996 ignoring all other invertebrates. We have also applied roof along with other species including butterflies to the European Court of Justice to be allowed to and hoverflies. The roof should be fully established Governance £14,749 intervene on behalf of the European Commission in by summer 2014, when monitoring will reveal which court proceedings issued by Bayer and Syngenta. invertebrates are using it. Total £1,403,412 ) ( Bombus hortorum bumblebee Garden Falk © Steven Our Vision A wildlife-rich planet where species, including invertebrates, thrive alongside people. Our Mission: To achieve sustainable populations and stop the extinction Income of invertebrates. Over 4,000 2013 We will accomplish this by protecting, improving and expanding their habitats threatened crayfish and strengthening the respect given have been moved to bug species by:- to 14 Ark sites • Mobilising, inspiring, enabling and persuading others to take Amount action, through the development and dissemination of knowledge The UK has lost over Restricted grants £892,788 and values. Donations & legacies £70,843 • Undertaking practical 97% conservation projects. Unrestricted grants £9,495 • Promoting the value of invertebrates of wildflower-rich Bank interest £19,397 and raising awareness about the challenges to their survival. grassland since Contracts & contributions £206,230 • Shaping the development of WWII Total £1,198,753 relevant legislation and policy.

Organisations making donations, grants, gifts-in-kind and project partners A S Butler Charitable Trust, ABP (Associated and Historian, Froglife, Garfield and Ryedale Natural History Society, Scottish British Ports), Active Ecology, Amphibian & Weston Foundation, Glasgow City Council, Natural Heritage, Scottish Wildlife Reptile Conservation Trust, Ardeer FRIENDS Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, Trust, SITA Trust, Southerns-Gee Trust, group, , Bees Wasps & Greater Manchester Ecology Unit, Green St Helena Government, St Helena National Ants Recording Society, BIAZA British and Roof Consultancy, Habitat Aid, Hamamelis Trust, Stirling Council, Stirling Ranger Service, Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Trust, Hanson Brick, Heritage Lottery Sumptuosity, Swansea University, Tata Biffa Award, BP CATS, Bristol City Council, Fund, HINCA (Humber Industry Nature Steel Port Talbot, Tata Steel Scunthorpe, Bristol Conservation & Science Foundation, Conservation Association), INCA (Industry Tees Valley Wildlife Trust, The Anthony and Bristol Water, Bristol Zoo Gardens, British Nature Conservation Association), Inner Noreen Daniell Charitable Trust, The Camelia Arachnological Society, British Ecology Forth Landscape Initiative, Isle of Man Trust, The Conservation Volunteers, Society, Bumblebee Conservation, Camden Government, IUCN International Union for The Co-operative Group, The David King Council, Central Scotland Green Network Conservation of Nature,J Paul Getty JNR Charitable Trust, The Ernest Kleinwort Support Unit, Centre for Ecology and Charitable Trust, Kemerton Conservation Charitable Trust, The Golden Bottle Trust, Hydrology, Chapman Charitable Trust, Trust, Lancashire Environment Forum, The Green Backyard, The Henderson Chris Manley, City and County of Swansea, Lancashire Environment Records Network, Foundation, The Percy Hedley 1990 Clackmannanshire Council, Cobb Charity, Lancashire Wildlife Trust, Lincolnshire Wildlife Charitable Trust, The Roddick Foundation, Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre, Cumbria Trust, London Bee Keeper Association, Lower The Royal Horticultural Society, The Taurus Local Nature Partnership, Cumbria Mole Countryside Trust, Lucite International, Foundation, The Wildlife Information Centre, Wildlife Trust, Darwin Initiative, Defence Manifold Trust, National Trust,Natural The Yorkshire Arboretum, University of East Infrastructure Organisation,Defra , Derek England, Neath Port Talbot Council, Neath London, University of Liverpool, University & Clare Stevens Trust, Devon Wildlife Port Talbot County Borough Council, Nene of York, Veolia ES Cleanaway Pitsea Trust, Wildlife Trust, Dudley Zoo, Park Trust, North Lanarkshire Council, North Marshes Trust, Victoria and Albert , Ed Phillips Wildlife, Lincolnshire Council, Northumbrian Water, Museum, Viridor Waste Kent Limited, Environment Agency, Esmée O&H Hampton, Paignton Zoo, Perenco, Wessex Water, Westcountry Rivers Trust, Fairbairn Foundation, Essex County Perth & Kinross Quality of Life Trust, WREF (Western Riverside Environmental Council, , Exmoor Peterborough City Council, Philip Parker Fund), WREN (Waste Recycling Group Ltd), National Park Authority, Falkirk Council, Associates, Plymouth City Council, Plymouth York City Council, York County Council, Falkirk Environment Trust, Fife Council, University, Remarkable TV, Richmondshire Yorkshire Naturalist Union, Yorkshire Forestry Commission, Forth Naturalist Landscape Trust, River of Flowers, RSPB, Wildlife Trust And a special thank you to all of our members, volunteers and Trustees

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