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Your Wild Life.
Your Wildlife Trusts.
Wildlife Trusts around the UK are making amazing things happen on
land and at sea, for wildlife and for people. We couldn’t do it without
the support of our members and volunteers. Here’s what we achieved
with your help in the past year…
our impact 800,000Wehelpcarefor...
239,000 45,000hectares of land including
2,300
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over &members over
There are volunteers
more Wildlife
Trust nature
nature reserves reserves than there We brought
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Millions theUK!
of visits are made to our nature
reserves every year, and we have We advise
116 4,000
visitor and education landowners across the UK
centres on managing their land
for wildlife
We worked We engage over
around the
coast to save 270,000 young people
our seas through schools, colleges
and groups
we run
240 Wildlife Watch groups
Over 14,000which inspire
` children
500,000
people attending our walks,
talks and events
These statistics cover the period April 1 2016 - March 31 2017