Plantlife’s Impact

Celebrating Plantlife’s Achievements

At Plantlife, our aim is to make lasting positive change for wildflowers, plants and fungi. Our goal is to help mitigate the impact of climate change while rebuilding biodiversity within our ecosystems. We regularly join forces with others to ensure our money, influence and impact can go further. By working together, we can protect the vital habitats which so many plants and animals call home.

Helping Threatened Species

We work to protect and restore temperate rainforests, meadows and other environments for the benefit of rare and threatened species. This has had a major impact over the years, with many plants increasing in number as a direct result of our work.

2024/2025 :

• • We shared our knowledge for sustainably managing grassland habitats with over 1,260 Welsh farmers and landowners. We wrote 15-year management plans and recorded baseline botanical data for 7 meadow sites across England to create, restore, monitor and manage over 100 hectares of species-rich meadows by 2030
  • 10,177 people, including conservation and land management professionals and our members, attended 322 Plantlife training sessions, workshops and e-learning courses on everything from bee walks to forest yoga and managing meadows
  • 2,450 volunteers gave 15,000 hours of their time to Plantlife by doing everything from working on conservation projects, to helping with communications and policy work
  • We began working with landowners across the UK to turn land which has limited agricultural or developmental value, and is underperforming, into thriving, species-rich grassland
  • As leaders of the Peat-free Partnership, we joined retailers, charities and the horticultural industry to call on all UK Governments to ban all commercial trade in peat. This will protect these vital carbon stores and the unique biodiversity of peatlands
  • We met with government officials to make sure that the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation was adopted at the Conference of the Parties (COP) in Colombia – the world’s largest biodiversity summit
  • We kept the pressure on all UK Governments to protect grasslands including calling for a Grassland Action Plan for England by the end of this parliament

Our Work Couldn’t Happen Without You

At a time when our natural world needs our help more than ever, every contribution helps. These are just some of the amazing ways you have helped us in the last year:

• Plantlife’s incredible community of volunteers contributed over 15,000 hours of your time to support our work.
• You helped us raise £2.4 million in donations and legacies
• More than 5,000  people joined our No Mow May Movemen