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.

During 2023/24 alone:

• We’ve partnered with The Woodland Trust and the National Trust in the Rainforest Lichen Recovery Project. Through this project our experts are using rainforest restoration techniques to protect 20 species of threatened lichens and mosses at 12 sites across Devon and Cornwall.
• In our campaign for greater protection of grassland we contributed to the Welsh government policy consultations, ensuring that species-rich grasslands receive greater protections from development following an update to Welsh Planning Policy.
• Through our species recovery programmes, we sowed 120,000 Juniper seeds across 5 sites in England to promote the species’ recovery. Following a successful germination trial, we also sowed 17,200 Pasqueflower seeds across 10 sites in southern England and Yorkshire.
• After years of planning and development, we finally launched our partnership project Species on the Edge in 2023. This collaborative project, led by NatureScot and funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, aims to protect and restore 37 of Scotland’s most threatened coastal and island species.
• In 2023, we worked with 9 partners to launch Natur am Byth (Nature Forever!), an £8m species recovery programme and the largest ever partnership of its kind in Wales, running until 2027.
• In November 2023, members of our team travelled to Dubai for COP28, speaking up for grasslands and ensuring plants were part of the climate mitigation and adaptation conversations.

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 14,800 hours of their time to support our work.
• You supported our fundraising campaigns, helping us raise £183,161.
• Our membership grew from 17,723 to 22,814 members.
• More than 7,600 people joined our No Mow May Movement.
• More than 100,000 people visited our Ranscombe Farm Nature Reserve annually, making it our most visited reserve.
• We saw a total of 239,366 social media engagements on our content.