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This February join people like you across the UK, in showing the love for the special places and wildlife you cherish and don't want to lose. There are a couple of things that you can do to support - wear a green heart and help save a special place for wildlife... read on for more.
Show the Love for the special places we don't want to loose through climate change
A Love Song...
Have you seen this unique collaboration with Ridley Scott Associates, featuring a bespoke poem written by the award-winning Anthony Anaxagorou, is brought to life by Charles Dance, Miranda Richardson, David Gyasi and Jason Isaacs. With music by Elbow and the NHS Choir, it's a love song like you've never heard before.
We are involved because of the observed and predicted impact of a changing climate on wildlife and special places. For example, the catastrophic decline in some seabird populations, such as kittiwakes, has been brought about by a decline in sandeels - their favourite food. Cold-water plankton, is being replaced with warm-water plankton, which is less plentiful and not as good for the sandeels so the kittiwakes don't get enough food to rear their chicks. This has resulted in 70% declines.
The threat of climate change is real and, without urgent action to wean our economies off fossil fuels, will affect the things we love. So this February, #ShowTheLove and then take action.
How you can get involvedIt all starts with a green heart. Make one, wear one, share one, or pick up special green heart stickers from the reserve.
If you would like to do something else to show the love - how about helping us to save Lodge Hill?
We need your help to keep nightingales singing at stunning Lodge Hill...Our most iconic songbird is under threat and needs your help now.If we don't act, the UK's number one site for nightingales - Lodge Hill in Medway, Kent - will soon disappear forever.A planning application has been submitted to build 5,000 houses on the Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), and Medway Council wants to allocate the land for development.If the development goes ahead, the vital habitats that the nightingales - and other wildlife - call home will be destroyed and this iconic bird's song silenced. Will you join our campaign to save Lodge Hill and SSSIs across the country?
How you can help: