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People
What is VWT’s impact?
Successful conservation efforts depend not only on
scienti昀椀c research and habitat management but also on
the support and participation of people. VWT engages
with a variety of individuals and groups — including local
communities, partnerships, communities of interest,
landowners, farmers, volunteers, students and citizen
scientists — who will have a range of views and feelings
about nature conservation.
VWT volunteers and citizen science contributors have
generated vast amounts of ecological data, including
polecat and stoat sightings, assisting emergence counts
at bat roosts and supporting woodland bat monitoring
sites. This enables long-term monitoring, and can help to
provide early warnings of when we may need to respond
rapidly, for example, to 昀椀nd ways of excluding predators
or competing species at bat roosts.
• During VWT’s Pine Marten Recovery Project, local
volunteers contributed 6,401 hours to help with radio
tracking, trail camera monitoring, and other activities.
• Ten years after the pine martens were reintroduced
in Wales, the local community reported being largely
supportive or neutral towards pine martens, with no
negative responses, thanks largely to meaningful
community engagement, responsive communication
and working within the local context.
• Following a drop during COVID, VWT’s active volunteers
have risen from 53 in 2020 to 389 people in 2024,
working across 8 projects in Britain and Ireland.
©Rachel Alexander
Involving people contributes
to a more nature-connected
society and increases
pro-nature behaviour,
giving conservation projects
a greater chance of success.
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