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Save our fragile wildlife
Your membership is reviving the habitats our wildlife depends on.
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We’re incredibly grateful for your membership, that does so much to help save wildlife. However, the 2023 State of Nature report confirms that wildlife continues to decline, with over 1,500 UK species under threat. You can help increase the scale and impact of our work by increasing your membership today, enabling us to revive more of the woodlands, wetlands, farmland and oceans that nature urgently needs.
Please, will you increase your membership to help more wildlife recover?
There’s so much more to do, but if we act now, threatened wildlife can recover. Every extra penny you can give today will help save birds and other wildlife by reviving the habitats they depend on.
You can help woodland birds recover
Today, trees cover just 13% of the UK, threatening the future of many woodland birds. That’s why at Blean Woods in Kent, you can support work to block drains and create damp undergrowth where birds like Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers can find insects to feed on. At Franchises Lodge in the New Forest, you could help remove non-native trees and shrubs to help Hawfinches and Nightjars among 2,000 other species. Or you could help plant thousands of native trees on bare upland hillsides at RSPB Haweswater.
You can help give seabirds a future
Our 2023 seabird survey confirmed the impact of Avian Flu, with tens of thousands of Gannets, Great Skuas, gulls and terns lost. We now need your help so our scientists can understand how seabird populations will recover and identify where they most need our help in the years to come. With your extra help today, we can push for policy change to stop overfishing so that there’s more food for birds like Puffins. And we can help more chicks survive by removing invasive rats, managing habitats and protecting nesting sites from disturbance on their breeding islands.
You can help make farming wildlife friendly
As 70% of our countryside is farmed, wildlife-friendly agriculture is one of the biggest ways we can tackle the nature crisis. By letting field edges run wild, birdlife including Yellowhammers, Starlings and Skylarks have made a spectacular comeback on RSPB Hope Farm since 2000. Now your extra help today can support new trials and measure new ways of making farming sustainable, such as planting wild strips between cereal crops. Together, we can demonstrate how to build biodiversity, improve soil health, reduce agriculture’s carbon footprint, produce food sustainably and give farmers a secure income.
You can welcome cranes to our wetlands
With so many wetlands lost, we need your help to protect and restore more of this vital habitat to help spectacular water birds like Common Cranes thrive again. After an absence of over 400 years, 2023 was another record-breaking year, with over 250 birds now making a home in the UK showing what we can achieve by acting together. Increasing your membership today could help to improve more RSPB wetlands to help wildlife, create natural flood defences and lock away carbon.