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Welcome to the RSPB's Media Centre, we are here to help you produce great stories.
Providing you with topical news, features and comment is just the start. You can also find the contact details of our national and regional media officers across the UK, our press release archive and details of the resources we can provide to help you. We place a very high value on quality media coverage and we look forward to working with you to achieve this.
The stories we tell reflect the RSPB's leading role as a campaigning charity working to save threatened birds and wildlife, the special places they depend on and the environment that supports them.
Our unique combination of practical land management and cutting edge policy work is supported by sound science and more than a million members, including the world's largest wildlife club for young people.
Latest press releases
25 May 2012 Two young members of the Fraserburgh Wildlife Explorers, a local group for junior members of the RSPB, have recently received RSPB Wildlife Action Awards in recognition of their contribution to nature conservation. Lena Forsyth, aged 11, received a silver award while Kirsty McLeod, aged 7, received gold. |  |
25 May 2012 While celebrating this summer’s Jubilee and Olympics, the public should think twice before setting off fireworks, releasing balloons and lighting sky lanterns to ensure pets, wildlife and livestock aren’t frightened or even killed. |  |
25 May 2012 Charities team up to warn about the dangers of fireworks, balloons and sky lanterns ahead of the Jubilee and Olympics |  |
25 May 2012 Couple from Western Isles highlight threat to marine wildlife |  |
24 May 2012 The Thames Estuary is one of the many important sites for nature benefiting from Euro support launched twenty years ago. |  |
24 May 2012 The RSPB in the Midlands is stunned by Defra’s plan to allow the destruction of buzzard nests and to permit buzzards to be taken into captivity to remove them from shooting estates. The Society believes this intervention against one of England’s best-loved birds of prey will set a terrible precedent and prove to be a costly and unnecessary exercise. |  |
24 May 2012 The RSPB is stunned by Defra’s plan to allow the destruction of buzzard nests and to permit buzzards to be taken into captivity to remove them from shooting estates | |
23 May 2012 Yesterday (Tuesday 22 May) 14 year-old Harriet Sleight, from 4th Tenby Guides stepped up and took the reins of RSPB Cymru as Director for the day. Harriet was the lucky winner of a competition launched by RSPB Cymru in partnership with Girlguiding Cymru, to find a young champion for nature. | |
23 May 2012 Proposed development in Western Isles could have a “devastating impact on one of Europe’s best sites for eagles.” |  |
23 May 2012 Wigtown Bay’s ospreys have surprised everyone this year, by pulling a bit of a vanishing act. |  |