#Lifechanging

How you’re doing your bit for our furry (and scaly and feathered and slimy) friends

You don’t have to be Sir David Attenborough to help endangered species. In fact, you've already been helping to protect some of the UK’s most precious native animals, by protecting habitats, funding conservation and education projects amongst other things. Here are 19 of our favourites…

Barn owl credit: © Hamish Smith & by kind permission of Hawk Conservancy Trust &: Muncaster Castle, Otter credit: © Darin Smith, Water vole credit: © Dean Eburne, Pine Marten credit: © Steve Gardner, Hen Harrier credit: © Len Blumin, Twite credit: © Mike Pennington, Newt credit: © H Krisp, Moths credit: © Roger Cornfoot, Toad credit: © Thomas Brown, Wildcat credit: © Peter Trimming, Mussel credit: © Des Colhoun.

Thanks to you over 2,300 projects across the UK have had funding to conserve and raise awareness of threatened species and their habitats.

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