07 June 2018
James Cartlidge, the new species champion for turtle dove, visited a farm in his South Suffolk constituency to learn about the work being done to help conserve the species.
Latest Species Champions News
White-clawed Crayfish grabs a Champion
05 June 2018
Jenny Chapman will be working with Buglife to champion the UK’s only native freshwater crayfish, the white-clawed crayfish. She met with Buglife’s Andrew Whitehouse to receive her Species Champion poster and learn more about conservation of this threatened crayfish.
Hilary Benn to champion Ratty the Water Vole
22 May 2018
One of the UK’s most rapidly declining mammals, the water vole, has found a champion: the MP for Leeds Central, Hilary Benn. Hilary will be working with the People’s Trust for Endangered Species to raise the profile of the species and help improve its conservation status.
Winter 2018 Newsletter
06 February 2018
The Winter 2018 Species Champion Newsletter has been published.
Plantlife gain a new Champion
23 January 2018
John Glen, MP for Salisbury, has joined the project as species champion for pheasant’s-eye, a small and unusual arable “weed”. This plant is endangered in the UK but found on parts of Salisbury Plain.
MP to champion an upland bird
10 January 2018
Dunlin, a small wader that breeds in the uplands, gains a champion in Debbie Abrahams, MP for East Oldham and Saddleworth. This bird has responded well to blanket bog restoration in the Peak District.
Yellowhammer finds a champion
05 December 2017
Farmland bird gets a champion
The yellowhammer, famed for its “little bit of bread and no cheese” song, is to be championed by Tim Loughton, MP for East Worthing and Shoreham.
Skylark gets a new champion
29 November 2017
Layla Moran, MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, is championing one of the countryside’s most tuneful species, the skylark. Although this bird is threatened by agricultural intensification farmers can help by leaving uncultivated areas or “skylark plots”.
Back from the Brink Launched
15 November 2017
Back from the Brink was formally launched in Windsor Great Park on 15 November. Project partners, volunteers and other distinguished guests came together to celebrate the launch of the programme, which aims to bring 20 species back from the brink of extinction. The project has been made possible thanks to £4.6m National Lottery funding, awarded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Shrill Carder Bees, Violet Click Beetles and Willow Tits are amongst those to benefit from this great new project Back from the Brink.
MP ventures into cemetery to monitor bats
31 October 2017
Helen Hayes, the MP for Dulwich and West Norwood and champion of the Common Pipistrelle, has been taken on a Bat Walk in Norwood cemetery where they detected both Common and Soprano Pipistrelle bats.
