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Our Strategy for Nature Recovery
Warwickshire Wildlife Trust's 2030 Strategy
We need to help Warwickshire's wildlife
We are living in a climate and ecological emergency. Year after year we see and feel the growing disruption this is causing in extreme weather events, declining populations of familiar species and the deterioration in the services which nature provides us… pollination, flood management, soil fertility and wellbeing.
Tom Marshall
Putting Warwickshire nature recovery into action
Nature’s recovery is the only way to solve the climate and ecological emergency, which in turn will help to improve our health and well-being.So, we must no longer just think about slowing the loss and protecting what remains. We need to stop and reverse the declines.
Bring wildlife back at scale and at pace, to help:
- restore biodiversity
- stabilise the climate
- ensure food security
- improve health and wellbeing
- and protect our economy
It is time humanity started nurturing rather than eroding the very fundamentals of human progress and welfare.
Our strategy describes what we will do in Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull.
This is our unique contribution. Local action, collective impact, global change.
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What we stand for at Warwickshire Wildlife Trust
Our Vision to help wildlife in Warwickshire
Our vision is of a thriving natural world where wildlife plays a valued role in addressing the climate, ecological and human health emergencies.
Our Purpose
Our purpose is to bring wildlife back, and to help people act for nature.
Our Approach
We are ambitious in our desire to reverse the decline in nature. We speak with a bold and confident voice, telling the truth about the state of nature and what needs to be done to put it in recovery.
As part of a grassroots movement we are firmly rooted in our local communities where we look after wild places and increase people’s experience of the natural world.
We look to establish common cause and work in partnership with others, to develop new ways to do what’s right for nature and deliver impact in support of our vision.
We demonstrate what is possible, and inspire, empower, and enable people from all backgrounds to bring about our vision with us, embracing the diversity of our society to change the natural world for the better.
As part of the UK network of Wildlife Trusts we work to ensure that our local actions add up to have a collective impact and help address global issues.
Our Goals
Our goals are to make more space for nature with more people on nature's side.
More space for nature
We will work for 30% of land in recovery, protected and connected for nature by 2030. Making more space for nature to become abundant once again will give our struggling wildlife the chance to recover and also restore beautiful wild places
More people on nature’s side
We will help 1 in 4 people in Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull take action for wildlife. Science shows that when 25% of people act, this is enough to change the minds and behaviour of the majority. That is what success will look like.
Read on to find out more about our goals.
More people on nature’s side
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We will help 1 in 4 people in Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull take action for wildlife. Everyone needs nature yet we are increasingly disconnected from our natural environment.
Without many more people on nature’s side we cannot hope to put nature into recovery.
Can you help wildlife in Warwickshire?
Our members, staff, volunteers, champions, supporters, visitors and advocates are already part of a growing movement of individuals standing up for nature: #TeamWilder.
We know though, that for the scales to shift further, wildlife needs even more people to be acting in support of nature because while public concern about the environment is at an all-time high, behaviour change is lagging far behind.
Science shows that when 25% of people act, this is enough to change the minds and behaviour of the majority. That is what success will look like.
Our part will be to do what we can to help people act for nature. We will work with people of all identities, cultures, backgrounds and abilities, and where we can we will help support them to value, enjoy, speak up and act for wildlife.
What is #TeamWilder?
#TeamWilder will be a support community for nature which properly reflects our society.
In local wildlife and green places residents of Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull have one of the most powerful tools for fighting climate change right here on our doorsteps: healthy natural systems, which can provide one-third of the cost effective climate mitigation needed between now and 2030. Our role is to inspire and support community action through #TeamWilder; a people powered movement that will create a Wilder Warwickshire.
More space for nature
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We will work for 30% of land in recovery, protected and connected for nature by 2030.
Success will be when nature is in recovery with abundant, diverse wildlife and natural processes creating wilder landscapes where people and wildlife thrive.
At the moment the UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world, with increasingly fragmented and isolated remnants of natural habitat across our land.
Together with others we will be at the forefront of reversing the decline.
We will double our estate in ten years by adding 1,000 ha to our existing nature reserves.
But this alone will not be enough. Wilder Warwickshire requires action at a much greater scale, so we will work with partners to influence others, farmers and foresters, businesses and politicians, to restore natural processes and reconnect wilder land to bring our wildlife back and create places where people and nature can thrive together.
