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We’ve been standing up for wildlife for over 40 years. With the help of scientists, conservationists, landowners, and the general public, we’re working to protect our delicately balanced ecosystem by bringing our most threatened species back from the brink.

Where we work

Funded by our generous supporters, our grant programmes support the very best scientific researchers and wildlife experts out in the field. The evidence they unearth guides worldwide conservation. Browse the map below to discover the amazing wildlife we’re saving from extinction.

Latest appeal

Clinging on by a claw

Clinging on by a claw
Can you help raise and release a wildcat?
Wildcats are impressive and fierce native predators. But due to loss of habitat and persecution, there are now less than a hundred left in the wild. We’re funding Saving Wildcats’ with £100,000 over six years to breed and release wildcats. Last year, the first litters were born in the wild and right now, the wildcats in the centre are paired up for the breeding season.
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Help hedgehogs from home

Help hedgehogs from home
The National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme is an exciting new pilot project, that will, for the first time, produce robust hedgehog population estimates. We need spotters to look for hedgehogs on our cameras. Can you be a hedgehog spotter?
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Success stories

Our recent successes

Our recent successes
We've awarded more than £9,000,000 to research and conservation projects around the world. Read about some of our success stories.
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Latest news from PTES

PTES’ long-running survey reaches the end of the road

Road casualties tell us something about the living You might think a field guide to identifying ‘roadkill’ was unnecessarily macabre, but as Roger Knutson explains in his 1987 book, Flattened Fauna, ‘in becoming part of the road fauna … an animal loses not only its life but also … most of its mass and much …

The future of hedgerows depends on the swift return of capital grant support

“The recent freeze to these capital grants has undermined the financial security landowners vitally depended on. It’s a huge step backwards that will damage our chances of preventing further loss of this vital countryside network and the ambition to extend and improve it.” Hedgerows need our help We’ve had hedgerows for almost as long as …

Bridging the knowledge gap: the valuable contributions of conservation volunteers in monitoring dormice

Bridging the knowledge gap Hazel dormice have long been the focus of conservation efforts in Britain. In the 1990s Pat Morris and Paul Bright studied them, laying the foundation for the understanding of their ecology and behaviour. Over the years, the scope of research has expanded, not just through academic studies, but also through the …

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