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Protecting Wildlife for the Future V Annual 2014/15 Review Protecting Wildlife for the Future v Contents The Wildlife Trusts 4 What We Do 6 Where We Work 7 From our Chair & CEO 8 People & Nature: our impact 10 Living Landscapes: our impact 12 Living Seas: our impact 14 Highlights around the UK 16 Financial and Organisational Information 20 Our Partners & Biodiversity Benchmark 21 Find your Wildlife Trust 22 My Wild Life stories 23 The statistics in this Annual Review cover the period April 1 2014 - March 31 2015. Elm trees at Holy Vale - a damp The projects and work covered here broadly run from Spring 2014 to Summer 2015. and wild wooded valley with a To download a pdf version go to wildlifetrusts.org/annualreview To order a paper copy please contact [email protected] fabulous nature trail to explore. Holy Vale is looked after by the The Wildlife Trusts. Registered Charity No 207238. Cover photo: Children exploring Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust. peatland habitats at Astley Moss, Lancashire v The Wildlife Trusts Nature makes Wherever you are there is a life possible, it Wildlife Trust caring for wildlife also makes life worth living. and wild places near you. It gives us food, clean water and fresh air, shields us from the elements, and gives us joy, We reach millions of people, inspiring them to value wellbeing and wonder. The Wildlife wildlife and encouraging them to take action for it. Trusts want to help nature recover from the decline that for decades Together, we have a mission to create Living has been the staple diet of scientific studies and news stories. To do this Landscapes and secure Living Seas. we urgently need to repair the disconnection between people and the natural world, involving people of all ages and backgrounds but vitally our children, the future generations that will care for our planet. On land wildlife needs space to thrive beyond the protected nature reserves that have saved the last remaining fragments of wildness. And at sea we must protect areas now for a future when our seas are richer in wildlife than they are today. Why? Because all our lives are better when they are a bit wild. Did you There are more Wildlife Trust nature know reserves than branches of McDonalds in the UK. Volunteers at Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust's Attenborough nature reserve. 04 The Wildlife Trusts | Annual Review 2014/15 The Wildlife Trusts | Annual Review 2014/15 05 What We Do Near You Across the UK, The Wildlife Trusts The Wildlife Trusts in our care 130 visitor and give millions of people a chance education centres > 98,000 CHAMPIONING NATURE our trusts hectares of land to connect with nature. 3,100 km of rivers 47 cared for by Trust benefitting from our advice Wildlife Trusts around the UK, Alderney and 2,300 nature reserves We help adults and children alike to experience nature and 159,000 the Isle of Man hectares of land advised on enjoy our beautiful wild places, learn from our experts, care 5,000 inspiring people for their local patches and take action for wildlife. We use planning applications responded to 8.1 million time spent in nature to help people manage and recuperate visits to our reserves 100s from illness, gain new skills and make new friends. of MPs/MSPs met in person to around 11,000 talk to about wildlife events run 395,000 people attending our events, our people walks and talks We champion and care for wild v places and wildlife. We look after 43,000 more than 98,000 hectares of volunteers 168,000 people engaged through our woods, meadows, beaches, rivers, 1.2 million outreach programmes hills, bogs and urban parks. We hours dedicated by with schools, care homes provide expert advice to others - our volunteers and other places farmers, schools, businesses, local councils - to help them manage > 800,000 their land for the benefit of wildlife. members We also campaign for the 2,100 protection of our seas and run staff marine conservation projects around the coast. > 600 trustees We work with a wide range of different people to create change for nature. We collaborate and work in partnership with all kinds of people and groups, from local School children exploring London Wildlife Trust's communities to national Camley Street Natural Park, King's Cross. environmental and social organisations. • Improving people’s • Creating networks health and happiness of connected areas for through nature wildlife experiences What we're • Saving and caring • Helping people to take doing somewhere for wild places action for wildlife N KEY near you ... • Restoring natural • Inspiring future W E habitats and wild places generations to love Marine Conservation Living Landscape wildlife through outdoor Projects Areas S learning Visitor and Education Nature Centres Reserves 06 The Wildlife Trusts | Annual Review 2014/15 The Wildlife Trusts | Annual Review 2014/15 07 From our Chair and CEO As a charity, we have over a hundred years of history in helping wildlife... ...but it is easy to overlook the profound role we play in society in positively impacting on millions of people’s health and happiness. In 2014-15 The Wildlife Trusts We are working hard to ensure that England's first colony of wild continued to work throughout the the centrality of nature to education, beavers in Devon and Wildlife UK to stand up for wildlife and to healthcare and the economy is Trusts around the coast press for a visionary and urgent better recognised by demonstrating championed wildlife in our seas, approach to restoring our battered the power of nature to change and collecting vital scientific data to ecosystems. affect lives. And at the same time we build the case for properly are working directly to safeguard the protected areas around the UK. This year saw the start of our My intricate web of life that exists Wild Life campaign which aimed to around us. An outstanding 1.2 million hours underline the true importance of have been contributed by our wildlife to all sorts of different In the build up to the General volunteers this year. Our volunteers, people’s lives. Wildlife Trusts Election, Trusts from across the UK members and the many people collected and shared countless tales contacted potential candidates to we work with are the lifeblood of of why nature matters to people. promote a Nature & Wellbeing Act - our movement. Wild places help to store our water positive environmental legislation to Thank you for your support. in the uplands, to filter it, to capture restore wildlife in a generation. We carbon from the atmosphere and are published a joint green paper the places where our beautiful supported by 25 NGOs and wildlife can thrive. But we are also promoted the idea to all main part of nature and when deprived of parties. The result of this activity saw contact with other species and the the Green Party and Liberal natural world, human beings get Democrats commit to an Act while stressed. The stories people shared Labour and the Conservatives through My Wild Life made this included key aspects in their absolutely clear. manifestos. Key to this is the vision of ecological networks through The story of a little boy in Dorset which we can map nature's René Olivieri who suffers from Attention Deficit recovery. Avon Wildlife Trust’s My Chair Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Wild City Project produced just such showed how exploring in the wild a comprehensive map of habitats calmed him and made him happier. across Bristol to help transform A man in Nottinghamshire had gardens and open spaces. been bullied at school and left with chronic low self-esteem. We also battled immediate The Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust's threats such as major housing Recovery Project was a gateway to a developments - not least one new life for him giving him the threatening a nationally important confidence to apply for jobs. wildlife site in Kent - and fought to Family time at Essex Wildlife Trust's Abberton Reservoir. save Rampisham Down in Dorset. Stephanie Hilborne OBE We campaigned to safeguard Chief Executive 08 The Wildlife Trusts | Annual Review 2014/15 The Wildlife Trusts | Annual Review 2014/15 09 People & Nature Impacts in Action Nature matters. LOCATION 50+ orchards across Herefordshire It’s vital to our well-being and crucial for our future. But it is TRUST under pressure from our ever-increasing population and its Herefordshire demands. The health of our natural environment affects our Wildlife Trust IMPACT whole quality of life, from the air we breathe to where we 70 people involved and play football at the weekend. positive management for traditional orchards Our goal is to give everyone the We inspire the next generation to through access to nature. We work Herefordshire chance to connect with wildlife. To care for nature. We recognise that in partnership with local NHS is home to some protect the natural world, we must we must gather support from Trusts and health charities as part encourage people to care about it nature’s future champions if we are of the therapeutic process. of the UK’s by giving them a chance to to help wildlife in the long-term. experience it. Every year, thousands of schools We mobilise people to take action most important visit our nature reserves and for nature. We engage people in From the dawn chorus to the smell centres, and we deliver outreach practical, on-the-ground work. In traditional of woods filled with wild garlic, we programmes that engage children turn, we rely on the dedication orchards. show people the joys of wildlife.
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