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Create a countryside fit for wildlife

Birds in our countryside have suffered huge declines in the past few decades, but we could bring them back if farmers and land managers were rewarded for doing so. With your signature, we'll ask Governments across the UK to fund more work that restores and protects habitats on which threatened wildlife depends.

Safeguard our sealife

Half of the UK's wildlife lives in, or depends on, the sea, but this habitat is overfished, overtrafficked and overdeveloped. Thanks to your help, the UK Government has committed to protecting marine wildlife in its Marine and Coastal Access Act and the Scottish Government has made a similar commitment with its Marine (Scotland) Act. Your signature will press our Governments to create marine nature reserves that basking sharks, seahorses and puffins need to survive.

Stop extinction

Hundreds of species worldwide are on the cusp of extinction. In our UK Overseas Territories, 32 bird species for which we’re responsible are in danger of being lost forever. Your signature will ensure the UK Government does all it can to save them.

Save tropical forests

Tropical forests are treasure-houses of life on Earth – and their conservation is vital in the fight against climate change. With your help, we’ll urge the UK Government to secure (and take its fair share of funding) a global climate change agreement that commits to saving tropical forests and respects the wildlife and indigenous people that depend on them.

Stop climate chaos

The Government must invest now in the UK’s transition to a clean, green economy. Climate change is happening already and the longer we wait to tackle it seriously, the more it will cost to clean up the mess. Your signature will say no to polluting industries, and yes to green jobs, including renewable energy produced in harmony with nature.

Inspire children through nature

If you experience wildlife first-hand, you're more likely to love it, and if you love it, you'll protect it. Sign our letter and encourage politicians to create more opportunities for young people to enjoy nature. If we fail to act now, we’ll miss nurturing the environmental champions of tomorrow.

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1880's

The bird plume trade

A group of women, appalled by the barbaric killing of birds for the fashion industry, get together to put a stop to this trade. Public support for the campaign grows to such an extent that the import of bird plumes is finally banned in 1922.

Ban DDT

Seeing a dramatic fall in peregrine numbers, investigations lead to the pesticide DDT. This chemical is causing peregrines to lay eggs with thin shells that are cracking before the young chicks are fully developed.

Working with the British Trust for Ornithology and government scientists, we help make sure that further use of DDT is banned.

No airport at Cliffe

We can’t believe that one of Europe’s richest wetlands for wildlife, including three of our reserves, could be about to become an airport.

By bombarding government with letters calling for the proposed airport plans to be scrapped, you stop this development, speaking up for nature so loudly that it can’t be ignored. Cliffe Pools is still a thriving place for nature.

The Wildlife and Countryside Act

Your help shapes the future of what will become the legal foundation of everything we do - the Wildlife and Countryside Act. We ask you to write to your MP and demand better protection for our wildlfe.

Your involvement in this hugely succesful campaign sees a victory won for nature with the passing of the Act in 1981. When we all stand together, we can shape politics and help the wildlife we love.

Harapan rainforest

Because it is being destroyed by loggers at a truly terrifying rate, we start a campaign to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Sumatra.

With help from people like you, we acquire the management rights to the rainforest and begin the long process of restoring one of the richest places for wildlife on earth.

Saving our sealife

At risk from overfishing and harmful developments, the wildlife of our seas needs better protection.

We work with other conservation organisations to gather a quarter of a million signatures calling for full legal protection for this precious wildlife. Our campaign leads to the passage of the UK Marine and Coastal Access Act in 2009, and the Marine (Scotland) Act in 2010. RSPB supporters take up the call for Government to make good on its commitments and set up a network of marine protected areas where wildlife can thrive.

TODAY

Don't cut the countryside

Over the summer the UK Government will be reviewing how it spends its money. Massive cuts to funding for the countryside could have devastating effects on our wildlife.

Species like the corncrake could be lost forever within just 10 years unless we act fast.

Please tell the Government to spare our precious wildlife.

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WE OWE IT TO OUR CHILDREN...

Please sign our Letter to the Future and make your voice heard by the politicians who can provide a healthy environment for future generations.

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I’m writing this now to make sure our children have a chance of growing up in a world worth living in.

Today there’s still time to save nature.

If we act now, our children may yet be able to share their world with sparrows and polar bears, eagles and tigers. There’s still a chance that they’ll inherit a world where the engines of life – the air, seas, rivers and forests – are healthy. Where bluebell woods and rainforests won’t be lost forever.

Yes, I accept that recovery from recession has meant spending billions of pounds – one way or another future generations will have to pay for this. The least we can do is to use this money to create a future they’ll thank us for. I want governments to invest in a healthy economy and a healthy environment. As well as protecting jobs, I want them to tackle climate change and to protect our seas, countryside and wildlife.

I’m signing this letter to show that I care deeply about nature and the world we are creating for our children. In years to come I hope they’ll be able to see that their world is a richer one because of the action we took today.

I’m hoping that many thousands of people will join me in signing it.

Together we can be a powerful voice for nature.

Yours in hope.

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