There has been lots of news coverage of several reports by various organisations around the crisis that our country, and our planet, faces from the climate emergency, loss of biodiversity and the degradation of the natural world.
We know the struggle is global as well as local, and the action required is massive, but we are making a difference, and there is still time to act.
The UK Parliament has now declared a Climate and Environmental Emergency, and though this is largely symbolic, it shows how far up the political agenda these issues have risen.
Thanks to the building pressure of people like you writing to their MPs, damning official reports, lobbying by the environmental charities' coalition Greener UK (of which the Wildlife Trusts is a member), peaceful but insistent protests of citizens via organisations such as Extinction Rebellion and the Youth Climate Strike, and awareness-raising campaigns such as those by the Wildlife Trusts (Wilder Future), RSPB (Let Nature Sing), WWF and Greenpeace, the issue of protecting our environment has never been more visible – and the chance of getting real tangible action in place to support our work has never been more possible.
