About us

A father looking through binoculars whilst his toddle daughter sits in a bluebell meadow

Tom Marshall

About us

Why we're here

We need nature and it needs us. We’re here to make the world wilder and make nature part of life, for everyone. We’re helping to make life better – for wildlife, for people and for future generations.

Who are we?

Wildlife Trusts Wales is one of 46 Wildlife Trusts working across the UK. We work in partnership with the 5 Wildlife Trusts in Wales to help secure a Wales that is wilder and more biodiverse. 

How we work together

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Our beliefs

People are part of nature; everything we value ultimately comes from it and everything we do has an impact on it.

The natural world is valuable in its own right, and is the foundation of our wellbeing and prosperity; we depend on it and it depends on us.

Everyone deserves to live in a healthy, wildlife-rich natural world.

Everyone should have the opportunity to experience the joy of wildlife in their daily lives.

An ant walks across a piece of grass covered in dew drops with a flower in the background

Jon Hawkins

Campaigns

Help bring nature back

Give nature a voice
A female blackbird on a hawthorn tree with berries

Dawn Monrose

UK

The Wildlife Trusts

The Wildlife Trusts is a grassroots movement of people from a wide range of backgrounds and all walks of life, who believe that we need nature and nature needs us.  We have more than 850,000 members, 38,000 volunteers, 2,000 staff and 600 trustees.

Each Wildlife Trust is an independent charity formed by people getting together to make a positive difference to wildlife and future generations, starting where they live.

Meet our people

What we do

For more than a century The Wildlife Trusts across the UK have been saving wildlife and wild places, increasing people’s awareness and understanding of the natural world, and deepening people’s relationship with it.

We work on land and sea, from mountain tops to the seabed, from hidden valleys and coves to city streets.  Wherever you are, Wildlife Trust people, places and projects are never far away, improving life for wildlife and people together, within communities of which we are a part.

We look after more than 2,300 nature reserves, covering 98,500 hectares, and operate more than 100 visitor and education centres in every part of the UK, on Alderney and the Isle of Man.

By working in partnership we can have a bigger impact for wildlife. Across the UK we work closely with schools, colleges and universities, with hundreds of farmers and landowners, fishermen and divers; with thousands of companies, big and small;  with community groups and other environmental organisations;  with lotteries, charitable trusts and foundations;  with politicians from across the political spectrum;  with local and national governments; and more.

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The Wildlife Trusts play a very important part in protecting our natural heritage. I would encourage anyone who cares about wildlife to join them.
Sir David Attenborough