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Environment & Climate

Climate, nature, and environmental sustainability initiatives.

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945,000 members and 33,000 volunteers across 47 independent Wildlife Trusts; 4,100 dedicated employees managing over 2,600 nature reserves
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231,000+ children and young people engaged from over 2,400 schools, colleges, universities and youth groups; 7,300 corporate volunteering days facilitated annually
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10,120km of watercourses and 112,000 hectares of land managed by Wildlife Trusts; almost 14 million visitors welcomed annually to nature reserves and 120 information...
Nextdoor Nature (£5m National Lottery Heritage Fund programme) reached over 1,600 communities — eight times the original target of 200; 95% of participants reported greater collaborative working between residents and local organisations
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93 nature reserves managed across Lincolnshire; 1,987 planning applications reviewed with 58 full responses covering 536 hectares
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5,000+ young people and families visited education centres at Gibraltar Point, Far Ings and Whisby Nature Park, including 3,109 schoolchildren and 200 university and...
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Agri-environment scheme payments uplifted from £147,000 to £501,000 per year following renewal of four Countryside Stewardship agreements across 43 reserves
Little terns at Gibraltar Point had their best year in a decade (14 nests, 23 fledged young); bitterns set a new county record with 5 booming males and 10 fledged young at Far Ings
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3,256 members in 2025, including 383 new members (164 new Fellows, 85 new Associates, 134 new Student Associates); members span continents, disciplines and fields...
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Naturalists' Notebooks exhibition achieved highest attendance to date in 2025; education team exceeded school workshop targets with strong 2026 bookings
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Linnean Online digital collections platform relaunched on Preservica following migration, opening up access to heritage collections of Carl Linnaeus and other naturalists
HRH The Princess Royal accepted Patronage of the Linnean Society in early 2025; Green Careers Conference co-hosted with British Ecological Society welcomed around 70 attendees
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6,890 people met face-to-face across all projects and events
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5,800 people in food poverty supported each week through the 50-project Emergency Food Network
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3,270 people cooked at the Community Kitchen across 80 topics including low-energy cooking, baking and world flavours
5,800 people supported each week through the Emergency Food Network of 50 food projects across 60+ locations
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50,000+ freshwater pearl mussels reared and 5,100 juveniles released into 3 Cumbrian rivers in 2024/25
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10,443 Riverfly survey records uploaded in 2025 — the first time the initiative has broken 10,000; 1,905 sites monitored across 820 rivers and 240...
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Big Windermere Survey 2-year report reached an estimated 35–45 million audience through national and international media coverage
First LD-CHARM Arctic Charr Symposium convened in Newcastle; £200,000 research funding secured for Lake District charr conservation
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612,441 people reached across Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and DR Congo in 2023
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188,921 farmers supported to enhance their production practices across 12 projects
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319,101 people supported to improve their resilience to climate change across 19 projects
Three largest-ever programmes launched in 2023: $20m aquaculture and mariculture project with Mastercard Foundation in Kenya; four-year forest conservation programme in Ethiopia with Sida; four-year food security programme in Tanzania with SNV targeting 168,000 households
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1 million+ visitors welcomed to Nature Discovery Centres in 2023
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40,000 children and families engaged through Wilder Learning education programmes
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50,000+ citizen science wildlife observations recorded in 2023
93% of Nature Discovery Centre visitors rated their experience 5/5