Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire Northamptonshire
Wildlife Guardians Protect, Preserve, Inspire Photograph: Kestrel, Jon Hawkins
Help protect a threatened landscape Across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire agricultural intensification, urban development and climate change have all had an impact on our landscape over the last century. Meadows have been ploughed up, wetlands drained and hedgerows removed. Many of our precious wildlife species are in decline or dangerously close to extinction. The Wildlife Trust is determined to do something about this. Our mission is to create a landscape where wildlife can flourish and recover from past decline. We will provide a space for nature to thrive that can be enjoyed by people too. And we will work with local communities to raise awareness and understanding about how they can care for the wildlife on their doorstep.
Photograph: Sir David Attenborough, Erin McDaid/Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
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The last time the UK’s wildlife faced a challenge on this scale was at the end of the last ice age. We need to find ways to help our wildlife become more resilient to the trials it faces in the 21st century. We must now work on a landscape scale if we are to give wildlife a chance and allow future generations to enjoy nature as we have.
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Sir David Attenborough, President Emeritus of the Wildlife Trusts
Photograph: Hibernating dormouse, Danny Green
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Help create a Living Landscape The Wildlife Trust has been a guardian for nature and managed reserves right across the three counties, for many years. We need to continue protecting these vital spaces and connecting them together to create Living Landscapes.
Living Landscapes... create space for mammals to move around, places for wild flower seeds to settle and grow, birds to forage and butterflies to find nectar
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are good for people. A healthy environment reduces soil erosion and gives us clean air and water. It gives us places to enjoy and explore mean we can connect the small populations of wildlife clinging to little pockets of land, achieving much more for wildlife preservation
Photograph: Rymes Reedbank, Great Fen
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The Wildlife Trusts’ vision of a Living Landscape is not just that the wild world will exist in isolation but that we will all benefit from being reconnected to the real world; the blossom, the bugs, the birds, the beasts!
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Simon King, President of the Wildlife Trusts
By joining Wildlife Guardians you will play an important part in the creation and preservation of wildlife havens
Protect, preserve and inspire We are dedicated to conserving local wildlife and believe that everyone has a role to play in restoring nature. We work alongside partner and corporate organisations, with landowners and through our network of staff and volunteers to bring about improvements to the environment around us.
As a Guardian you will be part of our work to: Protect rare and threatened species such as otters, dormice, black hairstreak butterflies and green-winged orchids Preserve vital habitats for wildlife such as meadows, reedbeds, ancient woodland and grassland Inspire families, schools and communities to discover and take action for the wildlife on their doorstep
How your support will help £600 can protect threatened species such as dormice through careful habitat management and monitoring £1,200 can help preserve ancient woodland, providing vital habitat and cover for various wildlife species £3,000 could create a new scrape area at one of our wetland sites, perfect for lapwing and wading birds £5,000 could buy an acre of threatened habitat
Photograph: Otter, Amy Lewis
Safeguard nature There are three levels of Guardianship starting with an annual contribution of £600. Your gift will provide essential funding for conservation, habitat creation and management, and enables us to be there for nature where we are needed most. You can choose to pay annually or with installments by Direct Debit.
Attenborough £600 per annum
Darwin
Local Wildlife magazine x 3 per year Exclusive biannual reports focusing on our priority areas of need Invitations to exclusive events
As before plus: Wildlife Travel invitation Invitation to annual event, hosted by our Chief Executive
Rothschild £1,200 per annum
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As above plus: Attend 1 Wildlife Training Workshop of your choice free of charge (subject to availability) Behind the scenes site visits and reserve tours with Trust experts
Photograph: Bob Coyle
£3,000 - 5,000 per annum
Help protect and preserve our wild spaces and inspire others to care for the wildlife on their doorstep
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Attenborough Guardian: £50 per month/£600 per annum Considered one of the world’s most famous and esteemed naturalists, Sir David Attenborough has brought landmark wildlife to our television screens for over 50 years
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Rothschild Guardian: £100 per month/£1,200 per annum Founder of the Wildlife Trust movement, Charles Rothschild’s descendants continue to support the work of RSWT.
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Darwin Guardian: from £250 per month / £3,000 - £5,000 p/a Charles Darwin laid the foundations of the theory of evolution and transformed the way we think about the natural world.
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Some part/all of your donations could be used to make a Contributing Third Party (CTP) payment to a landfill operator to secure a grant through the Landfill Communities Fund. This enables us to turn every £1 that you give into £10 for local nature conservation.
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Your Guardian membership can do even more for wildlife if you pay by Direct Debit. Direct Debits reduce our administration costs and bank charges, and save you having to send an annual cheque, so please do consider using this form. You can cancel the arrangement at any time and you are protected by the Direct Debit Guarantee.
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