Philip Wayre Wildlife Trust
 United Kingdom  |  Animals/Wildlife

The objects of the Trust are to encourage the protection of British wildlife and wild areas. The Trust makes every effort to interest and inform the general public about the astonishing variety of wild creatures and plants to be found in the English countryside. To this end one of the Trust's main objects is to acquire land to be managed for the benefit of wildlife in all its diversity.

The Philip Wayre Wildlife Trust was founded in 1994 by the well known naturalist and conservationist Philip Wayre. The objects of the Trust are to encourage the protection of British wildlife and wild areas. The Trust is probably unique in that no money at all is spent on administration. Such work is carried out on a purely voluntary basis by dedicated supporters. This in turn means that every penny raised by the Trust goes directly into practical conservation. The Trust is especially active in the uplands particularly the Northeast Pennines where its first reserve of over 450 acres is located. This reserve is especially important for its breeding waders which include Curlew, Redshank, Lapwing, Golden, Plover, Snipe and Dunlin. The rare and endangered Black Grouse is also an important species there. The number of male Black Grouse displaying each spring on a well established lek has more than doubled since the reserve was donated to the Trust by Philip Wayre five years ago.

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