Help save land for nature. Donate to a local appeal

See also: badger vaccination appeals

From once in a lifetime opportunities to do something amazing for wildlife, to urgent requests for donations to save a threatened piece of land, you can help The Wildlife Trusts achieve positive change for nature and people:

 

Lincolnshire

A land fit for heroes

Darwin's Garden

Target: £500,000

Home of the ‘Dambuster’ Squadron

The creation of a new nature reserve will be fitting tribute to the many servicemen and women who gave their lives to preserve and protect our 'green and pleasant land'.
 

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Norfolk

Cley Marshes

Cley Marshes (Richard Osbourne)

Target: £1million

This is the biggest appeal in the Trust’s 86 year history. And probably the most important.

Please help us make this once in a lifetime purchase of an irreplaceable piece of land.
 

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North Wales

Eithinog

(credit Emma Bradshaw)

Target: £56,000

After years of campaigning, Eithinog - also known as Brewery Fields - has been saved for nature. 

With your help, we can make it a place for people to enjoy and for wildlife to flourish.
 

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Nottinghamshire

The Lost Woodland

Treswll Wood (Erin McDaid)

Target: £15,000

Help protect one of the county's finest woodlands - and the site for the re-introduction of the dormouse in Nottinghamshire.

We need your help to purchase a very important 10 acre area of land.
 

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Brecknock

Pwll-y-Wrach

Brecknock Wildlife Trust

Target: £42,000

This new piece of land features towering ash trees rising up from the valley bottom and oak trees on the drier upper slopes.

Spring sees the ground covered by a lush carpet of wild garlic, bluebells, wood avens, wood anemones...
 

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Northamptonshire

Irthlingborough

Irthlingborough Lakes and Meadows (John Abbott)

Target: £50,000

Help purchase land in the heart of the Nene Valley.

One of the most important wetlands in England and an internationally important winter stop-over for thousands of wildfowl and waders.
 

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South West Wales

Skokholm Island

Skokholm Island (Sid Howells)

Target: £250,000

The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales has been offered the opportunity by Trinity House to purchase the remaining part of Skokholm Island, an internationally important nature reserve.

 

 

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Cumbria

Lake District

View from Eycott Hill summit

Target: £968,000

Not only will this make a stunning nature reserve, but will serve as a very rare demonstration site to show others what could be achieved for wildlife in this landscape.

 

 

 

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Worcestershire

Fields of Gold

Fields of Gold

Target: £480,000

A chance to buy a farm and create one of the largest areas of pasture and meadow in the county.

What's exciting is the combination of protecting a truly special place and making it even more special by putting back wildflowers and orchards where they have been lost.

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Birmingham & Black Country

Rowley Hills

Rowley Hills

One of the biggest landmarks in the Black Country Living Landscape

Their grasslands are alive with flowers, butterflies and other wildlife. But the land is in fragmented ownership and its future is uncertain.

 

 

 

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Somerset

Catcott

Great white egret © Damian Waters Drumimages.co.uk

Help open up a wildlife haven for all to enjoy

With the help of many local people, Somerset Wildlife Trust has restored 30 acres of former industrial peat-diggings in the Brue Valley into species-rich, wetland habitat over the last two years.

Our next challenge is to secure sufficient funds to enable better visitor access to this nationally important site.

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Montgomeryshire

Dolforwyn Woods

Help save a special ancient wood

Time is running out for Dolforwyn Woods - Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust need to raise money to buy this sancient woodland by the end of 2013. Help to save Dolforwyn Woods.

 

 

 

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Shropshire

Darwin's Garden

Darwin's Garden

Target: £75,000

No other part of Charles Darwin’s birthplace and childhood home is open to the public.

This slip of woodland next to the river would open up a cherished corner of his world.

 

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Northumberland

Hauxley

Target: £75,000

Help is needed to transform Hauxley into an exceptional place to watch wildlife.

Northumberland Wildlife Trust need to raise £75,000 by September or they will lose the chance to buy it, so please help today.

 

Berks, Bucks & Oxon

Meadow Farm

Target: £270,000

Meadow Farm is abundant in the wild flowers we once took for granted.

Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust must raise £270,000 before the 31 July 2013 to save this vital wildlife site.

 

Want to donate to an appeal closer to home?

Find your local Trust and information on their appeals here.