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Making life better by water

Swan stretches its neck out as it takes off from the water

Will you help nature recover?

A shocking 41% of the UK’s species are in decline.

Our country has lost almost half of the biodiversity it once had. Urbanisation, pollution and industrial farming has dramatically reduced suitable habitats, pushing nature into increasingly smaller, isolated pockets.

Yet canals can provide a unique mix of habitats where nature can thrive. What was a route for industry can today become a wonderful corridor of life, improving biodiversity and helping nature spread again.

With 2,000 miles of habitat along our canals and rivers, we need your support today to protect canals for nature so that species have a place to call home.

Give wildlife a home

Small pike in weed bed

could buy 10 water plants whose roots shelter young fish

Bat flying over water

could buy a bat or bird box to help raise young in safety

A water vole sits on a mossy rock on the canal

could buy coir matting to create water vole habitat along canals

Keep canals alive with nature

What we're doing to help nature recover

Discover some of the work already happening along our waterways to provide more habitats for wildlife.

Volunteers installing bat boxes in a pillbox

Pillboxes for pipistrelles

Canalside buildings such as pillbox structures provide safe havens for vulnerable species, including the nathusius pipistrelle bat

Volunteers lowering a floating reed bed into the canal

Floating ecosystems

We're installing large stretches of floating ecosystems along our canals and rivers to help halt and reverse the UK's biodiversity crisis

Volunteers in Birmingham

World's largest orchard

Volunteers are helping plant the world's largest community orchard to help curb the wildlife habitat crisis and support biodiversity on a grand scale

Thank you

Thank you for supporting our work. Together, we can help wildlife thrive along our waterways and keep canals alive with nature.

Last Edited: 23 October 2023

photo of a location on the canals

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