Our Mission:

Reserves are at the heart of what we do. They’re vital to our conservation work and priceless spaces for everyone to get close to nature.

We believe they work best when they connect with wild spaces and habitats in the wider landscape. That’s why we’ll be working to make bigger, better, more joined up homes.

• Thanks to your support, we own 55 per cent of the land we manage and 45 per cent is managed in partnership with others
• By 2025 we will have helped to improve the wildlife value of at least 10 per cent of the seas around the UK and its overseas territories
• By 2025 we want to ensure at least 20 per cent of UK land is well managed for nature, by ensuring no loss of protected areas and by offering inspiration and advice to improve the management of around 5,000 square kilometres owned by others.

Nature is in desperate trouble. Species numbers have declined dramatically in recent years and it’s vital we work together to help their recovery.

We’ll continue to focus on our priority list of species and help nurture their recovery, through a combination of research, partnerships, landscape-scale conservation and policy work.

• We’ll give urgent and intensive help to birds such as the curlew, turtle dove, hawfinch, willow tit and puffin which are suffering from a worryingly dramatic downturn in numbers
• Continue our conservation investment in 41 other birds, to help prevent them slipping back down in numbers
• Continue the development and progress of already successful reintroduction projects, such as the bittern, cirl bunting and corncrake.
• We’re proud of our role in the State of Nature report, and together with the other 49 organisations involved, we will be a powerful partnership to react to the threats it identified
• We are the UK partner of BirdLife international and together we will tackle the threats to our shared nature overseas.

Keeping your bird feeders clean will help keep your birds healthy, happy and coming back for more. To clean your feeder you now need to simply twist the base to remove it, then pull the central pin out, which will release the perches. The lid is also easy to remove. You can then clean the tube and perches with suitable disinfectant or mild bleach solution, rinse, then leave to dry.