Nature and wildlife success stories

With your support we're able to conserve the nature and wildlife living on the land we care for. This means we are helping to reverse the decline of some species. Discover some of the plants, creatures and landscapes that are struggling. Find out how we're protecting them to help maintain the good health of the land we look after.

Wild Asparagus (Asparagus prostrates) — Wild asparagus (Asparagus prostrates) growing in June on the coastline near Cadgwith, The Lizard, Cornwall

A helping hand for the wild asparagus

The unique and endangered wild asparagus plant still grows in certain parts of the UK. We've been working to keep it alive and thriving.

How our team is helping

Saving the Large Blue butterfly at Collard Hill

Our largest and rarest butterfly, the Large Blue became extinct in the UK in 1979. We're working with other organisations to reintroduce them.

The rise of the Large Blue

a nightingale in the shelterbelt at croome — A nightingale in the shelter belt at croome

Nightingales at Croome

With a 90 per cent decline in nightingales over the last 40 years, the team at Croome are preserving the habitat so you can continue to hear nightingales sing.

Nightingales are declining

Puffins on the Farne Islands

The puffin is one of the country's favourite birds. There are few better places to see them up close than on the Farne Islands in Northumberland.

See the puffins up close

Sheep looking at visitors in Dinefwr Park, Carmarthenshire, Wales — The park at Dinefwr, Carmarthenshire, Wales

Six sheep (and a goat) who are saving nature

Meet the sheep working tirelessly to look after nature at the places we care for. They are grazing the land in ways that help protect wildlife and landscapes for future generations.

Meet the sheep