Nature's Heroes - Blog

Today's guest blog is from RSPB Youth Council member Lisa, who brings an enthusiasm for standing up for nature and a personal interest in tackling the climate crisis. With plans to study Geography and Politics at university, she has gained a dive...

On 18 June members of our campaigns team hosted an election special webinar designed to help you speak up for nature during the General Election. The recording is now available to watch! A UK General Election will take place on 4 July, and it&rs...

A guest blog from our Director of Campaigns and Mobilisation, Alice Hardiman, introducing you to our new team. The founders of the RSPB were campaigners. For decades, around the turn of the 20th Century, the focus of the charity was solely campaignin...

A blog by Ella Daish, RSPB Campaigner Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of sandeels are taken out of the North Sea every year, almost exclusively by EU fishing vessels. This is putting additional pressure on seabirds, like kittiwakes and puffins, who h...

In this special guest blog we hear from the incredible Hannah Bourne-Taylor, who single-handedly brought about a debate in Westminster on making swift bricks a compulsory feature of all new house builds in England. Hannah's campaign has been a master...

The need to protect and restore our shared environment is an issue that transcends political boundaries. With your support we can make strides towards saving our wild isles. We’re facing a nature and climate crisis. Millions of birds gone from ...

On Wednesday 24 May, the Retained EU Law (REUL) Bill returned to the House of Commons. Thanks to the over 12,800 of you who emailed your MP before the vote! You called on them to support the UK Government’s amendment removing the ‘sunset ...

If you’ve completed our e-action calling on Defra to back a ban on damaging sandeel fisheries, first of all, a huge thank you! A ban in English waters will be a vital step to securing a UK-wide ban on industrial fishing for sandeels. We’r...

What is the Retained EU Law Bill? The UK Government’s Retained EU Law (REUL) Bill threatens all the laws that we kept after our EU membership ended. These laws protect not only citizens, consumers, workers, and businesses, but also the environm...

Guest blog by Ruby Free Campaigns and Communications Officer, RSPB NI   Northern Ireland’s environment is diverse and iconic; however, it needs protecting and restoring more than ever.   In 2002 the Northern Ireland Biodiversity ...

It's a brand new year and there will be plenty of opportunities to take action for nature in the next 12 months. Take a spin around the UK with us and see what issues are coming up this year. Click one of the links below to jump directly to the ...

The 2022 Campaigning Year in Review  What a year it has been!  We’ve run 10 online campaigns tackling issues in all four countries of the UK, ranging from peat burning and horticultural peat usage through to elections, targets for nat...

(Image courtesy of https://depositphotos.com/3858931/stock-photo-books-vertical.html) Every month in our Campaign’s Update we recommend a book of the month. In October we turned the tables and asked our readers for their recommendations. W...

Lizzie Rumble is a member of the RSPB’s brand-new Community Campaigners Network. She is one of 12 campaigners in her cohort, who are spread all over the UK, from Cardiff to Belfast to Sheffield. Lizzie is based in Richmond, North Yorkshire. Ov...

It has been a turbulent time in politics. A new prime minister means a new opportunity to take a more positive direction for nature. We need to see action from Rishi Sunak and the UK Government to halt the plans which threaten our water, air, beaches...

The laws that protect the nature we love are under threat yet again. It’s ironic that the same UK Government making commitments to global targets for nature’s recovery should be considering abandoning the domestic laws most important to k...

I was looking for interesting stories for the May Campaigns Update newsletter and a colleague told me about a book on protest knitting that her mother had just bought. Now I can't knit very well but honestly one look at this book made me really ...

Nature and Us / Natur a NI In this guest blog by Eleni Morus, RSPB Cymru's Campaigns Officer, we invite you to take part in Natural Resources Wales (NRW) new initiative to have a national conversation about the natural environment. Natural Resources...

On the 6 November we will join together with people from all across the world to take part in mass mobilisations demanding world leaders do more to tackle climate change and nature loss, the...

We recently collaborated with Access College. A national creative college for young people who want to follow their passion for a career in the creative industry. Here are our competition winners - three fantastic songs that we felt stood out as the most inspiring.

This is a copy of the letter the RSPB's Youth council sent to the Prime Minister conveying everyone's support for 'The InConvinience Stores' campaign stunt and action. Prime Minister,  10 Downing Street,  London,  SW1...

2 weeks ago, we hosted a campaign stunt and action to get politicians’ attention to urgently address the nature emergency and Revive Our World.   Our InConvenience pop-up shops in Cardiff, Manchester and Edinburgh ...

From June 11 to 13, the G7 (Group of Seven) visited Cornwall for their annual summit. We saw leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States meet to discuss climate change, trade and the global recovery f...

Last month we celebrated the Government’s announcement of their intention to set a legally binding target for species abundance by 2030 in the Environment Bill. However, when the amendment was laid this month it left a lot to be desired. The we...

You did it!  Environment Secretary, George Eustice, has announced that the Government will be adding a legally binding target for reversing the loss of species by 2030 in the Environment Bill, aiming to halt th...