National Trust joins forces with WWF and the RSPB to stop destruction of UK nature

Spring is in the air and nowhere more so than in the countryside cared for by the National Trust. Europe’s biggest conservation charity is the guardian of more than 250,000 hectares of British landscape, and more than 780 miles of coast, making it accessible for all of us.

Thanks to this precious resource, we are able to enjoy some of the most spectacular species on Earth, from puffins to orcas, to bees, beavers, butterflies and ancient oak trees. But nature is under threat throughout our isles.

In the last 50 years, 38 million birds have vanished from UK skies; 97 per cent of our wildflower meadows have been lost since the 1930s; and a quarter of all our mammals, including water voles and greater mouse-eared bats, face the risk of extinction.