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Annual Report 2024-25

The RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) is the UK's largest nature conservation charity, managing 200+ nature reserves and working across science, species recovery, land management, policy and public engagement. Founded in 1889, the charity operates a 10-year strategy to 2030 to put nature on the road to recovery. In 2024-25, standout achievements included winning the Earthshot Prize for the Saiga Antelope recovery project (population up from 40,000 to 2.8 million), completing the largest nature reserve in England at Geltsdale, leading the 60,000-strong Restore Nature Now march, and securing a 40% increase in European Turtle Dove breeding populations through an international hunting ban.

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Nature reserve management (200+ reserves, UK-wide); species recovery programmes for 100 priority species; habitat and landscape restoration (peatland, wetland, woodland, chalk grassland); seabird and marine conservation; international conservation partnerships (East Atlantic Flyway, UK Overseas Territories, Kazakhstan steppe); food and farming policy; public engagement and membership; science and research; policy advocacy and government engagement; youth and community engagement (Nature Neighbourhoods, schools) Custom geography from upload: UK-wide / Global

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 200+ nature reserves managed across the UK; Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative won the Earthshot Prize 2024 (Protect and Restore Nature category) — Saiga Antelope population recovered from fewer than 40,000 to 2.8 million since RSPB co-founded the initiative in 2005
Key Metric 2 Geltsdale in Cumbria completed as the largest RSPB nature reserve in England following final land purchase; 110,000 native trees already planted there; Wallasea Island in Essex expanded by 100 hectares via a £2.2m grant — the largest ever received from a trust by the RSPB
Key Metric 3 Restore Nature Now march drew 60,000+ people and 350+ organisations to London — the largest ever march for nature and biggest single-issue demonstration ahead of the 2024 general election; neonicotinoid (bee-killing) pesticide ban upheld in England January 2025 following sustained RSPB campaigning

Key Outcomes

  • Western European Turtle Dove breeding population increased 40% (615,000 more breeding pairs) following RSPB-led international hunting ban across Spain, Portugal and France 2021-2024; Flow Country (including RSPB Forsinard Flows) awarded UNESCO World Heritage Site status — first ever peatland World Heritage Site
  • Government rejected emergency neonicotinoid pesticide application for sugar beet in England (January 2025) — protecting an estimated 1 billion bees per teaspoon of thiamethoxam; record number of Curlew chicks fledged in Northern Ireland through Curlew LIFE project
  • 39,000 migrating birds used Wallasea Island last winter; RSPB working toward 1.5 million member target; new Roundbarrow Farm in Wiltshire acquired — being transformed from intensive dairy farm to chalk grassland and woodland nature reserve for Stone-curlew and Chalkhill Blue butterfly

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