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Governments are spending billions digging us out of the financial crisis. Much of this money is being spent on getting us out of present difficulties by attempting to stimulate the economy.
We believe it is vital that such investment addresses not just our needs today, but also the needs we will have in the future. We want an economy that cares for our children and grandchildren.
Yes, of course the current problems must be sorted out, but we need to convince political leaders that public money can provide a better future for the planet, as well as addressing our current situation.
This will become even more important when there is less money available and politicians decide to reduce public spending. The focus must be on becoming more efficient, cutting wasteful expenditure but still investing in nature.
Sign our Letter to the Future. We will use all the signatures to urge politicians to consider the health of the planet, for the sake of future generations, when they are making decisions about where to invest money and where to make cuts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
At risk from overfishing and harmful developments, the wildlife of our seas need better protection.
By working with other like-minded conservation organisations, and gathering tens of thousands of pledges from concerned supporters, our joint campaign for a UK Marine Bill moves one step closer to giving our sealife the full protection it deserves.
Farmers who look after their land in ways that help wildlife should be rewarded for doing so. With your signature, we’ll ask governments across the UK to fund more work that restores and protects habitats that this threatened wildlife depends on.
Half of the UK’s wildlife lives in, or depends on, the sea, but this habitat is overfished, overtrafficked and over-developed. We’ve been fighting to get this habitat the legal protection it deserves, and we’re close. Your signature will help create marine nature reserves that basking sharks, seahorses and puffins need to survive.
The fate of so many species hangs in the balance right now. In our UK Overseas Territories, 32 of the species that we have responsibility for are in danger of being lost forever. Your signature will ensure the UK Government takes this responsibility seriously.
We’ll make sure the UK Government does its bit in Copenhagen later this year to secure (and take its fair share of funding) a global climate change agreement which must include keeping tropical forests intact – a great step towards saving some of the richest, and most threatened, places for wildlife in the world.
Money must be invested in renewable sources of energy sited in the right places – your signature will say no to new coal power stations that pollute, and yes to sustainable energy production in harmony with 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, the wonderful moments with nature that enrich our lives today may become impossible for our children.
