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Help tackle the climate crisis
Our climate is in crisis with hotter, drier summers and warmer, wetter winters. Wildlife can't cope and neither can we.
Numbers of dormice recorded at our nature reserves in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire have decreased since 2010 in a change linked to warmer winters; hotter summers could see beech trees disappear from some local areas, and there is strong evidence that caterpillars are emerging at different times of year, impacting breeding birds.
Wildlife is struggling but nature has the solutions...
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Some of the UK’s habitats most critical for storing carbon, such as ancient woodland, wetland and grassland, are found in our three counties. Yet they are under huge pressure from development and intensive farming. Fragmented habitats make wildlife more susceptible to the changing climate, giving species less room to move in times of drought, flooding or fire. We need to restore and link up woodlands, wetlands and floodplains to create a wilder landscape that helps nature thrive and locks up carbon.
Will you answer nature's SOS?
Our ecologists are analysing data from BBOWT nature reserves like Chimney Meadows to better understand the nature-based solutions they offer, such as capturing carbon and floodwater storage. This can help us demonstrate to key decision-makers why protecting land has so many benefits for nature, people and climate.
With your help we can share our expertise with more landowners, influence decision-makers and create vast nature recovery networks.
Can you support the biggest fundraising appeal in our history?
It's time to think bigger, bolder and wilder. We need landscape-scale nature recovery and protection for habitats in our region critical for climate.
You can help us achieve more nature everywhere, for everyone by 2030, but we must act now!
By creating and protecting more woodland, grassland and freshwater habitats, we CAN help climate-related problems locally - and wildlife will benefit hugely too.Conservation Strategy Director, BBOWT
Help us create a wilder Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire by giving to our Nature Recovery Fund today.
Now is the time to act for nature, climate and people...and create more nature everywhere, for everyone.
Hungry chicks
Warmer springs can leave baby birds hungry as caterpillars hatch earlier
Forests under threat
Drought sensitive beech trees are particularly vulnerable to changes in temperature and rainfall
Dormice in decline
Warmer, wetter winters contribute to a decline in hazel dormouse populationsWill you answer nature's SOS?
