Communicate 2019: Riding Waves, Changing Worlds. Presentation by Matt Shardlow

1. www.buglife.org.uk @buzz_dont_tweet
Giving trusting achieving doing it again.
Matt Shardlow

2. Matt Shardlow
CEO
Giving  trusting achieving
doing it again.
Partnership in Action for a Small Charity

3. Buglife is…..
Background – what is Buglife
Types of Partnership
Is it all worth it?

4. 59% of invertebrates
are in decline

5. Hallmann CA, Sorg M, Jongejans E, Siepel H, Hofland N, Schwan H, et al. (2017) More than
75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas. PLoS
ONE12(10): e0185809. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185809

6. What are the aims of the
Charity?
Buglife’s aim is to stop the
extinction of invertebrate species
and to achieve sustainable
populations of invertebrates.

7. Buglife Member Organisations
Amateur Entomologists’ Society
Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust
Badenoch and Strathspey Conservation Group
BRISC
British Arachnological Society
British Beekeepers Association
British Dragonfly Society
British Entomological & Natural History Society
British Myriapod and Isopod Group
Bumblebee Conservation Trust
Butterfly Conservation
Central Association of Bee-Keepers
Conchological Society of GB & Ireland
Cornwall Butterfly and Moth Conservation Society
Dipterists Forum
Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire Entomological Society
Dutch Bee Conservation (Bijenstichting)
Earthworm Society
Edinburgh Entomological Club
Flora Locale
Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society
La Société Guernesiaise
 People's Trust for Endangered Species
 Plantlife
 Pollinis
 Freshwater Habitats Trust
 River of Flowers
 Royal Entomological Society
 RSPB
 Butterfly World 2.0
 Staffordshire Invertebrate Group
 Sussex Biodiversity Records Centre
 Wildlife Trusts
 Wild Trout Trust
 Yorkshire Naturalists Union
 Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society
 Thames Valley Environmental Records
Centre
 Scottish Borders Biological Records
Centre
 World of Woodlice
 Xerces

8. Buglife Vision
A wildlife-rich planet where species,
including invertebrates, thrive
alongside people.

12. Target Delivered
Number of sites 840 944
Hectares
enhanced
210 325
Volunteers
engaged
5,300 11,749

14. Vision
To create a network of B-Lines linking wildflower-rich areas across
Avon from the west to the east, and from the north to the south,
linking the Cotswolds with the Mendips, cities to the countryside,
and the coast to the hills.
West of England B-Lines

15. Thank you to our partnership and funders:
West of England B-Lines
The February Foundation

16. Mapping methodology and Workshop

17. West of England B-Lines map
Approx 52,500 hectares and 180km!

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National Trust
The Wildlife Trusts
WWF UK
RSPB
Woodland Trust
Soil Association
Global Witness
Greenpeace UK
EIA
Friends of the Earth
Plantlife
Butterfly Conservation
Carbon Tracker
SUSTAIN
ShareAction
ClientEarth
Buglife
Platform
UK environmental organisations achieving most relative to their resources
by income
Number of votes received from 92 Environmental Civil Society Organisation CEOs per £1M of Income
(Based on data in 'What the Green Groups Said: Insights from the UK Environment Sector' Environmental Funders Network 2017)
Note: All organisations getting three or more votes plotted, but the Marine Reserves Coalition, which received three votes, is an unconstituted
coalition between six NGOs funded by Selfridges and no data on income is available.

22. www.buglife.org.uk Tel: 01733 201210 @buzz_dont_tweet
Buglife is a registered charity at Bug House, Ham Lane, Orton Waterville, Peterborough, PE2 5UU
Registered Charity No: 1092293, Scottish Charity No: SC040004, Company No: 4132695
Giving trusting achieving doing it again.
Matt Shardlow