Donating to the Biodiversity Fund
Wild Flower Meadows
Wild flower meadows are one of the rarest habitats in the UK, with changes in land use, agriculture, development, and changes in our gardens leading to the loss of 97% of our wild flower meadows since 1930.
Species rich grasslands are an established form of carbon sequestration, so not only is it hugely beneficial for wildlife, this wild flower meadows can help us put a dent in the climate crisis too.
Donations to the biodiversity fund help us buy meadow seed, which can cost upwards of £1,000 for enough seed to cover an acre. We sow the seed by hand after scarifying the grass, and teach farmers how to manage them effectively.
Hedgerows
Hedgerows are well known for providing a unique habitat for song birds, hedgehogs, and countless insects, but increasingly folks are catching on to their effectiveness at carbon sequestration.
Due to the dense nature of a well managed hedgerow, this unique habitat is also even more effecrtive at capturing CO2 than a woodland of the same size. Other they’re thought of as lesser, and funding them can be a real challenge, but they’re made from the same species we plant in our woodlands, with native shrubs and trees like Hawthorn, Hazel, Field Maple, Holly, and even the occasional Oak.
Donations to the biodiversity fund help pay for hedgerows at our projects, connecting existing scraps of woodland with other woodland new or old. We then share information on how to manage them well, instead of the modern “Flail baby, flail!” approach that is so damaging.
Help us spread biodiversity around the country!
You can do one-off donations, or monthly, and we’ll send updates, photographs, and videos, of our reforestation efforts right in your inbox every so often!