Growth on purpose.

Your donations are helping to fund the Ocean Conservation Trust’s new Blue Meadows project, which focuses on a holistic approach to protect and restore the UK’s seagrass meadows for the health of our oceans and beyond.

Seagrass is a haven for biodiversity (a single hectare is home to 80,000 animals), helps protect our coastline from erosion, and is a carbon store for the future. In fact, this king of the ocean outperforms other plants, absorbing carbon up to 35 times more efficiently than tropical rainforests! Impressive.

Rainforests play a vital role in the planet’s water and carbon cycles and in regulating climate. Yet today, rainforest destruction releases more CO2 than all the world’s cars, planes and ships put together.

The Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) promotes the establishment of community rights over rainforest lands, tackling the root of the problems related to deforestation and paving the way for local people to benefit fairly from the use and protection of forest resources.

Peatlands offer a natural solution to climate change, as they’re an excellent carbon store. Lack of care means peatlands are currently leaking carbon that’s been locked away for thousands of years back into our warming atmosphere.

Cumbria Wildlife Trust works to protect and enhance the habitat at a group of nature reserves at Witherslack Mosses.

The restoration project, your donations help to fund, involves maintenance to keep the bogs wet, removal of species growing in the wrong places, planting sphagnum moss to speed up bog regeneration, and much more.