The National Trust has a poor reputation amongst wildlife conservation organisations. This stems from a couple of things. First, the National Trust could do so much more to help nature, given its massive membership, large landholding and rich resources. This has been the case for many years. Second, despite the low priority that the NT…
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This is who has what
This morning I set you a little teaser: put these organisations and their incomes together. Here’s the answer: RSPB £137m WWF-UK £71m WWT £24m GWCT £7.2m BTO £5.8m Butterfly Conservation £3.7m Marine Conservation Society £2.9m Plantlife £2.8m Buglife £1.1m What do you make of that?
State of Nature 2
I was in North America when the last (and the first) State of Nature report was published but I wrote about it on my return. Last week I was at the launch of the latest version and I’ve already written about some of what went on there – but how about the report itself? It’s…
My NGO disinvestment policy
You might remember the list of New Year resolutions I suggested. Did you adopt any of them? Have you kept any of them? Did you try #4 – review the wildlife NGOs of which you are a member, and dump the low performers? I’ve taken that a bit further. I’ve cancelled all my Direct Debits…
President Juniper
Tony Juniper is the new President of the Wildlife Trusts. Tony says ‘It is a huge honour and privilege to be declared as the new President of The Wildlife Trusts. This organisation is the very backbone of conservation in the UK and the work being undertaken right across the country, in the places where we…