We’re creating more space for nature! 🎉 Lapwing, Redshank and Avocet are just a few of the species set to benefit from a major expansion to RSPB Wallasea Island in Essex. Thanks to a generous donation from the Ida Davis Family Foundation, the reserve will expand into 100 hectares of land next door – that’s an area of over 140 football pitches ⚽. 🦆 So what’s changing? In 2026 we will start creating different types of habitat to boost wildlife, including a freshwater lagoon. The other new fields

Back from extinction ⬇️ A colony of avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) at our Dingle Marshes nature reserve, near Dunwich on the Suffolk coast. Avocet are a wonderful example of conservation success. Whilst still rare, Avocet were extinct in the UK in the 19th century however numbers have been steadily increasing on the Suffolk coast since 1947, thanks to conservation efforts and environmental changes. Flooded beaches, a defence strategy during World War II, provided uninterrupted habitats for the