Mission Wild

Mission Wild

£207,505 of £3,000,000 goal

We need your help to breathe life back into the Severn Hams.
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Over the last 50 years, Gloucestershire’s woodlands, rivers, and grasslands have declined at an alarming rate, taking with it wildlife and our sense of connection to the natural world. A connection our survival depends on. 

We have shown that when we give nature a chance, it responds. From the return of the pine marten to the world-leading recovery of the large blue butterfly, we are already helping to revive the wild.

Harry's Mission for the Severn Hams

Harry's Mission

Our latest appeal takes us to our Severn Hams Nature Recovery Zone. This vast floodplain, stretching between Gloucester and Tewkesbury, was once alive with nature. With the help of our supporters, Harry is determined to bring that life roaring back.

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Within the Severn Hams...

Buff-tailed bumblebee

£35

Could restore an acre of species-rich grassland, creating habitats for pollinators
An eel lying on a pebbly river bed

£50

Could create an eel corridor, helping endangered eels return to their breeding grounds
Curlew

£75

Could maintain scrapes, providing food and safe refuges for breeding wading birds

Nature can bounce back

The message from experts from around the world is clear - nature needs us to act now, to act together, and to work at scale. 

That’s why we aim to accelerate nature’s recovery in three critical ways...

NATURE RECOVERY ZONES (NRZs)

Mission Wild is built around eleven Nature Recovery Zones. These are large areas where evidence shows that we can bring nature back at scale. Collectively, our NRZ’s cover a space eleven times the size of Gloucester!

These zones, shown in the map below, go beyond the bounds of our nature reserves and are about creating bigger, better and connected spaces for wildlife, people and the climate. 

These special areas can weave wildlife corridors through the places we live, farm, rest and work, allowing nature to thrive and expand across the county.

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With our expertise and an army of volunteers, these special areas can weave wildlife corridors through the places we live, farm, rest and work, going beyond our reserves allowing nature to thrive and expand across the county.

Imagine a Gloucestershire where we work together to transform these landscapes so that nightingales could return to the Slad Valley and flower-rich banks can stretch along the River Severn and pine martens can return to all our woodlands. We are growing a nature-rich county for everyone, but we cannot do it alone.