Plantlife

PLANTLIFE - THE WILD-PLANT CONSERVATION CHARITY

Founded in 1989, Plantlife is the only charity in Britain solely devoted to saving wild plants and their habitats. With its Head Office in The Natural History Museum, London, Plantlife, under its Director Dr Jane Smart, has a staff of 10 and a fast-growing membership of 4,750+. Plantlife works with the UK's leading conservation organisations: Butterfly Conservation, the RSPB, the Wildlife Trusts, Friends of the Earth, WWF, BTCV, the Tree Council, and with the Government agencies English Nature, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Countryside Council for Wales and Scottish Natural Heritage. Commercial sponsors include BT, Bryant & May, Ciba Geigy, Gerard House, Interflora, Lloyds Bank, Shell, Timotei shampoo and Whitbread.

Plantlife's purpose

Since the war, Britain has lost 98% of all wild-flower meadows, 190,000 miles of hedgerow, half our ancient woodlands, three quarters of our heaths, 98% of our unique 'raised bogs' and 80% of our chalk grasslands. 22 flower species have become extinct since records began. Plantlife's purpose is to turn the tide of wild-plant destruction.

Plantlife's achievements

Conservation action to rescue over 20 British plant-species from extinction in the wild: the 'Back from the Brink' programme.

Purchase of unspoilt wild-flower meadows in 8 sites, as permanent reserves for wild plants.

Plantlife has been - and still is - prime mover in the campaign to stop raised bogs being stripped for horticultural peat.

The Plantlife 'Great Hedge': work is under way to establish a network of hedges linking parishes and communities across Britain.

Publication of the first lower-plant 'Red Data Book' - official documentation of critically endangered species - on Stoneworts. Similar Red Data Books on Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts) and Lichens are in preparation.

Publication of 'Death Knell for Bluebells'- focusing attention on the effect of global warming on British wild plants.

Publication of 'The Acid Test for Plants' - the effect of acid rain on British wild plants.

We are organising, jointly with the French Government, a major international conference in France in September 1995 on the subject of implementing the 'European Habitats and Species Directive', the most important legal instrument to affect the conservation of wild plants and their habitats, and to extend its approach to Central and Eastern Europe.

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Your Plantlife Membership Application

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Overseas Member ú25 [ ] (Annual subscription)

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N.B. Plantlife can only accept payments in ú Sterling currency.

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PLEASE MAIL COMPLETED HARD COPY OF THIS FORM TO:-
Plantlife, FREEPOST, The Natural History Museum, LONDON SW7 5YZ, UK.

(Postage is free inside the UK, but a stamp saves Plantlife money. Please use a stamp if writing from outside the UK.)

Or telephone/fax with your credit card number (U.K. only) to:- (Tel) 0171-938 9111 (Fax) 0171-938 9112.

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