Wildlife success stories

Our conservation team and volunteers work tirelessly to help protect local wildlife on our farms. And it is with the support of our CRT Friends that we have been able to do so much and make a real difference.

If you would like to help us to do more wonderful work for local wildlife, you can join us as a CRT Friend or buy a Friendship as a gift:

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Stories from our farms

Here we'd like to share with you some amazing stories from our farms this year, where we are making a huge difference for wildlife:

Lapwings on the rise

We are delighted that out lapwing population at Lark Rise Farm in Cambridgeshire is now well established, having just celebrated our best breeding season to date.

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Dormice homes on our farms

Thanks to kind donations towards materials, our volunteers are building 20 wildlife boxes for hazel dormice to help them thrive.

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Water voles are back

It has been fantastic to see water voles make a return to our rivers, thanks to the hard work of conservation teams to enable them to survive.

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Bere Marsh Farm Barn Owl Fledgling photographed by Nick Dobbs © 04-07-2024

Barn owl fledgling delight

Fledglings are a welcome sight at Bere Marsh Farm. Thanks to donations, we were able to restore the dilapidated barn owl barn on the farm in 2020. Our barn owls have been successfully breeding here ever since.

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Reflower our wild meadows

Wildflower meadows are so important to our countryside. Find out why and discover what we are doing to restore them on our farms.

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Wildlife videos

To find out more about our stories and the great work we are doing to support wildlife on our farms, check out all five short videos, from our conservation team. Here's Vince, sharing our lapwing success thanks to nature-friendly farming:

Watch all our wildlife story videos

How you can help

We can’t do it without you. If you want to help us protect local wildlife you can support the CRT in any number of ways, including joining the CRT as a Friend.

Hopefully our stories above will have given you a taster of how Friendship subscriptions help to support our work, and here's some more great reasons to be a Friend.

You can also help support our work by making a donation, volunteering on one of our farms and signing up to our monthly newsletter 'CRT News' for regular updates from our farms, straight to your inbox.

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All the benefits of blackberries for both humans and wildlife!
Pollinators: why so important and how can we help?

Explore the incredible role of pollinators and why pollination is vital with ecological scientist Jeff Ollerton. From understanding the main groups of pollinators and why they matter, to discovering numerous ways in which we can all help to support their declining numbers.
Species conservation at Lark Rise Farm

Find out how we are protecting and helping to grow numbers of six Red-list species at Lark Rise Farm in Cambridgeshire. CRT conservation officer and wildlife expert Vince Lea will explain how the Red-list system works to identify our most endangered species in the country and share our approach to successfully reversing their decline on our farm.
Country needs to ramp up efforts to recover nature, not cut them, says CRT chair of trustees

The Countryside Regeneration Trust is very concerned to learn the government could slash the nature-friendly farming budget in England by £100m.

Volunteer with the CRT

Would you like to help wildlife and do your bit to create a landscape bursting with life? To enjoy quiet time connecting with nature to benefit your wellbeing, or to get stuck into exciting conservation projects with a friendly team? To learn new skills or develop existing ones? Whatever motivates you to consider volunteering, we’d love to have you in our team.
School trips on the farm
What We Do

The CRT promotes nature-friendly farming to help reverse biodiversity decline and combat climate change. We believe nature is integral to good farming and we protect, promote and regenerate our land and all life on it. We put our philosophy into practice on over 2,000 acres of working farms, small-holdings and woodland across England.
Slow-worms – the gardener’s best friend

The UK has 6 native reptile species including the curious slow-worm (Anguis fragilis). Although serpent-like in appearance, slow-worms are in fact limbless lizards and an amazing example of de-evolution.
Bere Marsh Farm

Mixed farmland, Dorset
Wildlife and our farms

The CRT has a wide range of wonderful properties across the UK. Many of these have been left to us in legacy whilst others were purchased to save the land - full of precious ecosystems and habitats - from intensive farming.
Conservation Volunteer

This is your chance to get 'down and dirty' to help CRT improve the habitats and environment on our farms, with a wide range of conservation projects and initiatives.
David Mills MBE

Trustee
Robin Page

Co-Founder
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The CRT relies completely on the generosity of our incredible supporters and friends to continue our vision of a living, working countryside.