Many of you will know that the RSPB isn’t just great at managing habitats and showing visitors around our superb nature reserves. We are also very effective when it come to campaigning. As mentioned on the blog yesterday, the RSPB was started some 122 years ago by a group of women who were campaigning to ban the use of feathers in clothing. Their hard work paid off and they won their battle which was then the starting point for what is now Europe’s largest wildlife charity. We are currently coming to an end to one campaign. More than 355 000 of you have signed The Letter to the Future and that includes a number of out Radipole visitors. Today we (as in the RSPB) are taking those signatures to Number 10, Downing Street to show just how many people are calling on the Government not to cut funding for nature conservation.
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This public demonstration of support also marks the launch of the most ambitious campaign in our 122 year history in an effort to end the continuing threat to wildlife in the UK and across the world.
In 2010 the world failed to meet a global target to halt the decline in biodiversity. A new target was set by the EU for 2020, and UK governments have signed up to it.
The RSPB’s Stepping Up for Nature campaign aims to encourage Government, businesses and individuals to step up and play their part for nature.
For more info about this campaign check out Andre Farrar’s blog at http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/blogs/specialplaces/archive/2011/03/09/stepping-up-for-nature.aspx