People & Nature

Easy access to good quality green spaces makes us healthier and happier, improves our sense of community and encourages us to take positive action to protect the environment.  Connecting people to nature is one of the key ways to address climate change, reverse biodiversity collapse, and improve our own wellbeing.

Join us as we work towards a society where everyone across the UK can access green space, connect with nature and be its champion.

Ask our politicians to stop the collapse of nature

#Nature2030

We all have a responsibility to care for nature and understand our role within the ecosystem. But, for people to understand their environment, their place in it and their role in caring for it, they must have the opportunity to experience and nurture a deep connection to nature.

Around 1 in 3 of us don’t have access to accessible nature-rich spaces near our homes, with no green space at all in some of the most deprived areas, widening the gap in health outcomes between the richest and poorest in society.

Show the Government you want access to nature in every neighbourhood

Sign the Nature For Everyone petition

Commentary

  • People and nature: Realising the promise of Nature 2030

    How the Nature 2030 campaign's goals align with Earth Trust's mission to help more people access and build meaningful bonds with the natural world around them.

  • If not now, then when for nature?

    The next five years determines whether the UK will be on track to net zero, halting loss of biodiversity and improving our environment and health, or not. CEO Jayne Manley looks at what needs to change.

  • Human right to access a healthy environment

    What would the UK be like if people had a legal right to clean water, unpolluted air and access to natural engaging green spaces?

  • The people have spoken for nature

    The People's Plan For Nature is a stirring call for urgent and immediate action from every part of society, to reverse the shocking declines in nature. Add your voice.

  • Does our connection with nature really matter?

    Jayne Manley explains why it is vital that we embed social engagement of people with nature into our future.

  • Nature everywhere, for everyone

    We are joining the #NatureForEveryone campaign to ensure that everyone, everywhere can access the benefits of nature.

  • Biodiversity and translating COP15

    Jayne Manley traces a journey from global biodiversity targets into what could emerge on the ground for people and the places where we live and work.

    • Our projects

    We are working to understand and address barriers to accessing and engaging with natural green spaces.

  • Growing Places

    The Growing Places project aims to give some of the most disadvantaged people in our communities a greater connection to their local landscape.

  • New to Nature

    Earth Trust is proud to be among the first wave of host organisations offering a role for the National Lottery funded New to Nature programme.

  • Building Nature In

    Find out how we are advocating and influencing for nature to be built in to the places where we live, work and play.

    • Get involved

    Join our growing community of changemakers, taking action for people and planet