@Nicky13Johnson posted this delightful tweet yesterday accompanied by a video of a robin singing:
“If you could listen to just one song for the rest of your life, what would it be? I choose birdsong.”
I know that Nicky is not alone.
Today, we report that almost half a million people across the UK took part in the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch this year counting more than 7.5 million birds in total. House sparrow remains at the top of the Big Garden Birdwatch rankings with almost 1.2 million sightings throughout the weekend. For many people, garden birds remain an important link to nature and we want to do more to increase this connection to help both wildlife and people – because we know that contact with nature improves our own well-being.
The bad news is that there are more than 40 million fewer birds today than there were forty years ago. The silence is deafening.
The good news is that you can do something about it. Today, you can pre-order our new single of pure birdsong and join our join our new Let Nature Sing campaign.
This is a bit of a departure for us as we try to tap into people’s latent love of nature through music and seek to translate that into action.
Working with our partners in Greener UK and the Environment Links across the UK, we plan to mobilise as many people as possible to help…
…maintain existing nature protection laws as the UK negotiates its future relationship with the European Union; including through the creation of strong environment watchdogs and the adoption of environmental principles in all four countries of the UK; and through a strong co-operative relationship with the EU
…secure legal commitments to nature’s recovery in all four countries of the UK, with measurable and binding long-term targets
…drive reform of agriculture policy to deliver the recovery of nature in all four countries of the UK
…press for the UK to take a leading role in developing a new global deal for nature in 2020
This is a big deal so please join us because together we can let nature sing.