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Make Space for Wildlife
By launching the 'Make Space for Wildlife'
Gardening Initiative, together we can positively improve
Warwickshire gardens for many declining species!
Your
donation will help:
House sparrow
With the decline
in natural habitat our gardens have become an important refuge for
many birds including our cheeky 'cockney sparrow' which is now
globally threatened and protected under The Wildlife and
Countryside Act 1981(as amended). There have been severe declines
in UK breeding population over the past 25 years with an estimated
ten million fewer breeding pairs recorded.
Hedgehogs
Evidence of the drastic decline of
Britain's favourite mammal is mounting - possibly as much as 50% in
the past fifteen years according to surveys carried out by The
Mammals Trust UK and The Peoples Trust for Endangered Species. It
is estimated that Britain's hedgehogs could have died out by 2025
if current trends continue.
Frogs and toads
The biggest threat to frogs and toads
in the UK is the impact from habitat change. The filling in of
ponds for development together with current trends of paving or
decking in gardens and the use of pesticides to control garden
pests, their primary food source, has greatly contributed to their
decline and populations are seriously threatened.
Bees and
bumblebees
The plight of bees has been highlighted
recently, and urgent action is needed.
We have lost at least four species in Warwickshire over the past
100 years. If bee populations continue to decline, the knock on
effects would be devastating for many other crucial ecosystems. The
Large garden bumblebee together with three other bumblebee species
is now threatened in Warwickshire.
Butterflies
Butterflies are extremely sensitive to
the environments on which they depend and they act as excellent
indicators of the health of our countryside. Over the last 200
years many of the UK's butterfly species have declined by as much
as 50%. Drastically, almost all of the UK's most endangered species
are continuing to decline due to habitat loss.
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Photo credits: Ian Rose, Steve Batt, Neil
Aldridge, Steven Falk and Richard Burkmar