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Climate crisis
Tackle the climate emergency
To tackle the climate crisis, we’re calling on the new government to help nature and people adapt to climate change.
We are in a climate and nature emergency, and the two are inextricably linked. Climate change is driving nature’s decline, and the loss of wildlife and wild places leaves us ill-equipped to reduce carbon emissions and adapt to these changes. One crisis cannot be solved without the other.
The UK has a legal target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Nature can make a massive contribution to achieving this, or an even more ambitious target — but only if our damaged ecosystems are restored. Climate change is impacting wildlife in the UK now, and we need a much more ambitious strategy to help nature adapt and give wildlife room to move.
What are we doing?
BBOWT is one of the partners delivering the Open University’s Floodplain Meadows Partnership, which has won a substantial grant from Ecover to help restore 50 hectares of floodplain meadows and research the carbon storage potential of these important habitats along the banks of the River Thames in Oxfordshire.
An aerial view of the fish bypass channel at Chimney Meadows Nature Reserve
Wetland restoration
We recently completed work on a £2 million wetland restoration and fish passage project at our Chimney Meadows Nature Reserve in Oxfordshire. This enhanced floodplain habitat not only stores more floodwater, reducing the risk of damage to towns and villages downstream, it also stores more carbon than other habitats.
What you can do
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