Take local action for a #WilderFuture
Put nature into recovery where you live
Join more than 50,000 people who are already standing up for wildlife in your local area. Become a member of the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) or volunteer and help us make sure nature recovers in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.
Join us
We can help nature recover, but we can't do it alone. Join more than 50,000 people who are already helping us protect the wonderful wildlife in your local area.
Volunteer with us
Wherever you live and whatever your skills, you can give hands-on help to nature.
Join the biggest local movement for wildlife and help put nature into recovery.
With the help of our members and volunteers, we:Â
Water vole by Terry Whittaker/2020VISION
Protect the homes of wildlifeÂ
In our Wind in the Willows film, Ratty's beautiful river has become uninhabitable. But because we run the longest-running Water Vole Recovery Project in the country, we are making rivers and streams in our area places where Ratty's real-world equivalent can live and feed. Although water voles are declining across the UK, in our three counties the total area of water vole activity has increased by 78% in the last 10 years. And that's just one example of the wonderful work we're doing. We know how to put nature into recovery, but we need your help to protect wildlife from the enormous challenges it faces today.
Speak up for natureÂ
We are never afraid to speak up when decisions are made that threaten the homes of wildlife. From challenging the government's badger culling policy, and protecting badgers from Bovine TB through our Badger Vaccination Project, to taking the government to court over their failure to consider wildlife in HS2 and the Ox-Cam Expressway proposals, we always make sure that the voice of wildlife is heard. Unlike Badger, Ratty and friends, real wildlife can't protest when its homes are destroyed. But with your help, we can give wildlife a voice so loud it cannot be ignored.
Frog by Guy Edwardes/2020VISION
Make homes for nature in our towns and cities
Our nature reserves are jewels in the crown of nature, but for nature to recover we need to join them up with other wild places. Our Living Landscapes are linking wildlife rich areas together and bringing more people into contact with nature. We are also helping people turn their gardens into homes for once-common wildlife like frogs and toads, hedgehogs and bees. With your help, we can make more and more of our local gardens and parks into homes for wildlife.
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The Wind in the Willows - Mole, Badger, Ratty and Toad return to search for a Wilder Future