Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (ARC)

Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (ARC) is a national wildlife charity with its head office in Dorset. Its mission is to ensure that native frogs, toads, newts, lizards and snakes - and the habitats on which they depend - survive and thrive. ARC is one of the UK’s leading managers of lowland dry heath. It owns 24 nature reserves and manages 80, covering 4,000 acres (1,950 hectares) nationally. The trust runs species recovery programmes, undertakes monitoring and scientific studies and is a pioneer in ‘district licensing’ for local authorities and housing developer surveying. As a governmental advisor, its team of habitat rangers and world renowned ecologists provide outreach educational programmes to help the public conserve and get to know the environment on their doorstep.

Visit www.arc-trust.org

Bat Conservation International

BCI’s mission is to conserve the world’s bats and their ecosystems to ensure a healthy planet.  Bats are vital to our world’s ecosystems and economy, but hundreds of species are under threat. BCI works worldwide to conserve caves, restore critical habitats in danger, and ensure the survival of bats. Founded in 1982, BCI has grown into a globally recognized conservation organization dedicated to ending bat extinctions. As a science-based and results-focused organization, BCI’s strategic plan outlines high impact conservation efforts focused on four core missions to execute our work: (1) Implement endangered species interventions, (2) Protect and restore landscapes, (3) Conduct high-priority research and develop scalable solutions, and (4) Inspire through experience. 

Visit www.batcon.org

Froglife

Froglife is a UK wildlife charity committed to the conservation of amphibians and reptiles – frogs, toads, newts, snakes and lizards – and saving the habitats they depend on. They strive to make practical differences with their education and conservation teams working on-the-ground to engage people and to restore and create vital amphibian and reptile habitats. They are encouraging as many people as possible, from all walks of life, to get involved in wildlife conservation. Froglife delivers its work through three programmes – Transforming Landscapes, Transforming Lives and Transforming Research.

Visit www.froglife.org

Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust

Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust aims to play a central role in tackling the ecological and climate emergencies in Gloucestershire, working closely with local communities and our partners. By working in partnership with farmers and landowners, they aim to create ten Nature Recovery Zones where wildlife with thrive alongside food production. Alongside this they will collaborate on large scale cross-boundary ecosystem restoration projects and smaller scale wildlife enhancement and nature highways in urban neighbourhoods. They will inspire communities to influence decision makers and drive forward change in their own neighbourhoods. Their purpose is a simple one – to ensure nature’s recovery together with the people of Gloucestershire. Their vision is for a natural world in recovery, where nature-based solutions are tackling the climate crisis and people are taking action for wildlife. Priorities are outlined in their Strategy 2030.

Visit www.gloucestershirewildlifetrust.co.uk

Kent Wildlife Trust

Kent Wildlife Trust is the county’s leading conservation charity. With over 32,000 members and over 1,000 volunteers, they manage and protect over 9,000 acres of land across more than 90 different sites and nature reserves, alongside our visitor centres. Their 25-year vision is to create a Wilder Kent where abundant wildlife has been restored across 30% of land and sea and is valued as a critical human life support system.

Visit www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk

Mauritian Wildlife Foundation

The Mauritian Wildlife Foundation is the leading non-governmental organization (NGO) in Mauritius and Rodrigues dedicated to the protection of the natural environment and the conservation of Mauritius’ endemic flora and fauna.

MWF’s mission is to:

• Save Mauritian species through the restoration of entire ecosystems.
• Seek new information through field research, data management studies in endemic species, and scientific collaboration for direct application to restoration methods and management.
• Share knowledge gained through restoration programmes with fellow Mauritians and international conservationists.
• Share the joys and benefits of native wilderness and wildlife with the Mauritian people.

Secure the future of Mauritian species through income generation and sound management of human, fiscal and capital resources.

Visit www.mauritian-wildlife.org

Mossy Earth

Mossy Earth is a social enterprise dedicated to protecting and restoring biodiversity and ecosystem processes through targeted field interventions. It works with a wide range of partners to identify, plan and implement interventions that will achieve these objectives. Mossy Earth seeks to implement interventions that provide the best return on investment both in the local sense (most effective way to restore a species, habitat or natural process) and in the global sense (focusing on the type of intervention and ecosystem more likely to yield widely positive outcomes). The work is funded by individual members and businesses that provide recurring financial support. By creating engaging content about these interventions and sharing it through social media, Mossy Earth also aims to make its operations more transparent and appealing to a wider audience. In line with these objectives, Mossy Earth is interested in improving its approach to using and generating conservation evidence and to reporting intervention costs.  

Visit www.mossy.earth/

National Trust

The National Trust exists to protect nature, beauty and history for everyone, for ever. They care for nature and conserve the nation’s treasures, making them accessible to everyone. To do this effectively requires an in-depth knowledge of the properties, landscapes and collections in their care, specialist expertise in how to look after them, and a rich understanding of the lives of the people who shaped them. Their recently established status as an Independent Research Organisation brings with it a commitment to develop an evidence-led culture to inform their work. Research takes place in many forms across the Trust, through projects they host and lead on, PhDs supported and partnerships. It important that research outputs are visible and widely used. The National Trust has developed an ongoing strategic framework for research, which includes six key research areas, and nine cross-cutting priority topics. One of these key research areas falls under Land and Nature, with the aim to improve the state of nature in the UK. Using their research, and that of others, will help us understand what actions to take, to create bigger, better and more joined up landscapes.

Visit www.nationaltrust.org.uk

Nature Conservation and Study Centre

Nature Conservation and Study Centre is a grassroot organization working to conserve nature and empower communities in Nepal. We work and collaborate with scientists, researchers, activists, communities, and policymakers to incorporate high-quality result oriented scientific research into nature conservation and sustainable livelihood.

Visit ncsc.org.np/

Plantlife

Plantlife is the global charity working to enhance, protect, restore and celebrate the wild plants and fungi that are essential to all life on earth. With two in five plant species at risk of extinction, biodiversity loss is now the fastest it’s ever been – which means our work has never been more vital. We champion and accelerate conservation action, working at the heart of a global network of individuals and organisations, to influence and inspire landowners and land managers, public and private bodies, governments and local communities. As time begins to run out, we are using our position as the global voice for wild plants and fungi to bring lasting and positive change to our natural world – for everyone’s sake.

Visit www.plantlife.org.uk/uk

Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust

Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust (SRWT) is a registered charity and works with the local community towards a better future for wildlife, people and the green spaces we all love. SRWT are also part of a national network of 46 Wildlife Trusts, working together for a better deal for nature and people locally and in the wider world. SRWT manages 15 nature reserves and one nature friendly farm across the Sheffield and Rotherham area. SRWT uses an adaptive monitoring framework to track long-term trends across their reserves and beyond. They are looking to better incorporate conservation evidence into their decision making and have been Conservation Evidence champions since 22nd April 2021.

Visit www.wildsheffield.com/

St Andrews Botanic Garden Trust

St Andrews Botanic Garden was founded in 1889 and has developed on its present site since 1960. The garden is now managed by a charitable trust. It is a beautiful and inspirational garden in the heart of St Andrews.  The impressively landscaped 18-acre garden provides a haven within mature trees and shrubs, herbaceous borders, rock garden and ponds. The Trust’s objects are: to promote and advance the education of the community in the knowledge of botany, horticulture, the environment and other subjects related to the work carried on at the Garden; to advance scientific knowledge and environmental protection and improvement through projects of conservation and urban ecology to address climate adaptation and biosecurity; and to advance the health of the community by maintaining and improving the Garden, making available an open-air recreational space to promote the community’s physical and mental well-being.

Visit www.standrewsbotanic.org/

Surrey Wildlife Trust

Surrey Wildlife Trust is the only local organisation dedicated to ensuring Surrey is a place where both abundant wildlife and people can live and thrive together. Guided by a collaborative vision where we all play a part in connecting nature, we provide expert advice and guidance to landowners and managers, making sure the land we look after leads by example, while inspiring and educating people and organisations across the county on how to take action. By doing this we will create a Surrey that is full of diverse and abundant wildlife, where nature is valued at the heart of individual choices, corporate decisions, and local economic and policy making. One that helps tackle the ongoing climate emergency, while supporting the health and wellbeing of all who live here.

Visit www.surreywildlifetrust.org/

The Biodiversity Consultancy

The Biodiversity Consultancy is a specialist consultancy working with businesses to help them understand their impacts and dependencies on nature, and helping organisations develop strategies to reduce and compensate for impact where it occurs. We work across a range of sectors to make biodiversity a central component of sustainability commitments and we guide businesses through our science-led approaches, specialist strategic, technical and policy expertise. Our work varies from working on site-based projects to help understand impacts and design biodiversity action plans, to helping organisations mitigate the biodiversity impacts of complex value chains, to helping develop new methods and approaches to understand business impacts, risks and opportunities.

Visit www.thebiodiversityconsultancy.com

Vincent Wildlife Trust

Vincent Wildlife Trust (VWT) is one of Britain’s leading mammal conservation organisations, focused on research into why mammal populations fail and innovative evidence-based ways of halting and reversing declines in Britain, Ireland, and mainland Europe.  VWT employs a science-led approach to conservation, seeking solutions to conservation problems either internally or through collaborative research with partners, and deploying solutions through on the ground conservation projects. It publishes its research in peer-reviewed journals and disseminates conservation solutions to practitioners in conservation handbooks, through best practice workshops and training sessions. VWT is committed to evidence and research-led interventions. VWT is action-based and research-active, using robust data-driven studies to inform our evidence-based conservation plans. We create customised interventions with real-world impact using this evidence-based methodology. Our expertise has led us to be approached by other organisations as a reliable source of impartial advice and evidence.

Visit www.vwt.org.uk

Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants

The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire (Wildlife Trust BCN) is a local wildlife charity supported by over 1,000 volunteers and more than 33,000 members. Together we restore, protect and fight for wildlife and wild places across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. We manage over 100 nature reserves covering 3,945 hectares of meadow, fen, woodland, heathland, chalk grassland, lakes and more. Through our nine Living Landscape projects we are working with others to connect our sites together into a bigger, more joined up area, helping wildlife to move freely through the countryside. We provide advice and training on habitat management and species identification for volunteers, ecological consultants and landowners as well as a wide range of events to engage people with nature. Our aim is for all our conservation work to be evidence led with habitat management decisions based on sound science. We run surveys to monitor population trends and assess the success of our practical habitat management, and work closely with universities and other organisations conducting research on our reserves. 

Visit www.wildlifebcn.org

Woodland Trust

The Woodland Trust is the UK’s largest charity dedicated to the conservation of woodland in the UK. We own over 1,000 sites across the UK, covering around 28,000 hectares and we have 500,000 members and supporters. Our conservation activities focus on the protection, creation, restoration and management of native woodlands and trees in the context of the wider landscape – both rural and urban. We are seeking to achieve a network of woods and trees that are bigger, better, more joined up and great in number than before. Delivering landscape-scale conservation requires a collaborative approach, working with partner organisations, landowners and communities to develop diverse, wildlife-rich and resilient landscapes that engage and benefit people. The Woodland Trust research programme funds and supports research to underpin our approach to conservation. We target our involvement in research activities to ensure that our objectives for woods and trees are informed by the best available evidence.

Visit www.woodlandtrust.org.uk