People's Trust for Endangered Species

Britain’s mammals are starting to stir making it the perfect time to get involved in our survey, '#LivingWithMammals'! 🦔🦇🦡🦊

Take just 10 minutes to record sightings of wild mammals or the signs they leave behind in your #garden, #allotment, or local park.

Take part for free online! 👇
ptes.org/lwm

Two wildcats surrounded by vegetation, one in the foreground with a focused expression, and another in the background. Sunlight filters through evergreen branches.

Pawsitive signs 💕

There is lots of excitement at the conservation breeding for release centre, based at @highlandwpark.bsky.social.

All six breeding pairs coupled up this year have been recorded mating.

Whilst matings don't always mean kittens, it's certainly a paw in the right direction 🐾

Make chalk streams an irreplaceable habitat Close

We can’t let this opportunity to properly protect chalk streams in planning go to waste.

Use our simple e-action template to submit a response to the National Planning Policy Framework action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/183198/...

Changes in the UK Stag Beetle Population David Wembridge (People's Trust for Endangered Species) shares new research revealing trends of population change in UK Stag Beetles.

entoLIVE Webinar: Changes in the UK Stag Beetle Population
12 March 13:00-14:00 GMT

Hear from David Wembridge @ptes-org.bsky.social about how community/citizen science has contributed to new research on population trends of UK Stag Beetles

Sign up: tinyurl.com/7ccx9p2m

@biologicalrecording.co.uk

Look out for blossom blooming on the trees, a sure sign of spring! 🌸 Not long now until we'll be celebrating the festival of blossom and traditional orchards. What's your favourite thing about spring? 🌱

#blossom #spring #orchards
📸Bob Lever, Anna Gazey

New delights for spring to be discovered in our online shop🌱 shop.ptes.org

Every penny we make in our online shop helps support our conservation work at People's Trust for Endangered Species.

💡Top tips for helping stag beetles 🪲

#stagbeetles #wildlife #gardening

But one population now needs urgent help. 🙏 Find out more here ptes.org/conservation...

Sadly, these small antelopes face ongoing threats making the species critically endangered. PTES is working with #SaigaConservationAlliance to provide a future for these unique animals in #Uzbekistan and so far numbers have made a remarkable recovery in many areas.

#Saigas are true survivors, exceptional in their ability to adapt to the most harsh environments and extreme conditions. They’re also important to the people they share their land with, and are known as “spirits of the steppe”. Numerous folktales and legends persist about them, even today. 🐐

Despite their cartoonish faces, #saiga antelope are tough creatures, and have roamed the earth since the ice age. 🐽🦂🌵

Their iconic wobbly trunk-like noses and large eyes make it hard to confuse them with any other! But it’s not all about the looks...

🎧Out now - listen to the latest episode of BBC Radio 4's Open Country podcast, Hedgerow Havens, with Martha Kearney and PTES' very own hedge geek and expert, Megan Gimber. Reporting on the benefits of #hedgerows from a very, very soggy Devon! 🌳🌧️ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#BBCRadio4 #OpenCountry

We're currently accepting internship grant applications for 2026. Find out more 👇
ptes.org/grants/apply-grant/internship-grant-criteria

#internship #conservation #britishgraduate #workexperience

Our programme has been running since 2001 and notable PTES intern alumni are active conservationists in universities, in government agencies, conservation NGOs and ecological consultancies where they are highly influential and effective.

Take a look at our unique #internship programme! 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬

We can offer you the vital next step and a chance to work on a specific conservation project in the UK for up to 18 months.

📸Pictured: Will Bayfield-Farrell (dung beetles)

Pictured: Saul Mallinson (kelp)

Pictured: Victoria Hawes (oysters)

Pictured: Ella Lewis (pine martens)

📣Calling all British graduates! 🎓

Are you a British #graduate, or have you recently finished your undergraduate #degree at a #university in the UK? Are you looking to work in #conservation in the UK but finding it hard to get anywhere without any #workexperience?

Hedgehog hibernation isn’t as simple as we thought - surprising new findings reveal a smarter survival strategy 🦔👇
www.hedgehogstreet.org/research-hibernation-patterns

#HedgehogStreet is a joint campaign by us and @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social

Mother's Day card by a sunny window.

Let mum know you're thinking of her 💛 shop.ptes.org

Every penny we make in our online shop helps support our conservation work at People's Trust for Endangered Species.

Clean Water Now - tell your MP to take action Take action A new water law is coming. Soon, MPs will decide whether to finally clean up our rivers, lakes and seas − or let toxic pollution continue unchecked. Right now, sewage, farming pollution an...

So if you care about restoring rivers, lakes and seas back to health, choose to stand up for #CleanWaterNow today on #WorldWildlifeDay 🌎💧

👇
action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/clean...

Clean Water Now - tell your MP to take action Take action A new water law is coming. Soon, MPs will decide whether to finally clean up our rivers, lakes and seas − or let toxic pollution continue unchecked. Right now, sewage, farming pollution an...

A new water law is coming. ⚠️ Soon, MPs will decide whether to clean up our rivers, lakes and seas, or let toxic #pollution continue unchecked.

This law is a once-in-a-generation chance to save our waters.

A colourful infographic showing a redbrick house with a blue front door, and a grassy garden full of wildflowers. Text reads: Go WILD for hedgehogs - wild gardens welcome hedgehogs. www.hedgehogstreet.org/go-wild-for-hedgehogs

Did you know...?
It's not too late to Go Wild for Hedgehogs...?
🦔
Choose a patch of garden today & simply let it go wild! We’ll take you on a journey through the seasons, with tips & what to look for!
👉 buff.ly/SClmjws

#HedgehogStreet is run jointly with @ptes-org.bsky.social

Stag beetles may look tough, but they rely on scarce deadwood habitats 🪵 A new UK analysis shows stable cores but falling numbers; so what next?

Join our FREE entoLIVE on 12 Mar with David Wembridge (@ptes-org.bsky.social) on conservation actions that work 🌍

🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1975613846...

A joy! 🦔

PTES manage a reserve to support red squirrels alongside other rare species. The reserve covers 100 hectares of semi-natural ancient woodland and is carefully managed to balance the needs of woodland mammals.

🐿️ ptes.org/red-squirrels-in-the-uk-threats-conservation-and-our-work-at-briddlesford-woods

If you're celebrating #MothersDay, you're sure to find something from our new Prickles and Petals range of clothing and accessories. Your purchase will help fund PTES' vital conservation work protecting wildlife around the world.

Shop now🦔💐 ptesshopteemill.org.uk

We don’t know exactly when hedges were first planted but there's evidence of field boundaries since the Bronze Age. Some of these still remain as the banks below some of our most ancient hedges. The hedges that cross our landscape sometimes have a checkered past, their history is entwined with ours.

Two hedgehogs eating kibble at night. 📷 Bridget Lapworth

Hedgehog Champions check your inbox for February's e-news🦔 It's raining cats and 'hogs! How do these spiky mammals hold up in the wet weather?

Not already a #HedgehogChampion?Sign up 👉hedgehogstreet.org/register
Hedgehog Street is a joint campaign run by us and British Hedgehog Preservation Society

Parthenogenic rock lizards in Armenia - People's Trust for Endangered Species Researchers in Armenia are producing practical guidance for restoration to save rare parthenogenic rock lizards.

Why? Because, much like unspoilt heritage properties on the housing market, natural rocky habitats just aren’t left the way they used to...👇
ptes.org/grants/worldwide-projects/parthenogenic-rock-lizards-in-armenia

Rock lizard on old church structure with crevices. Photo M.Arakelyan

Like admirers of ornate cornicing and period charm, these reptiles seek out the cracks and crevices of old churches and crumbling stonework.

Colourful Armenian rock lizard sits atop a orange rock in the sunshine with its head turned profile to the camera📸Bartand Ben

We’re not the only animals with an eye for good architecture🏡In Armenia, a rather glamorous lizard has a fondness for ancient structures and traditional features when choosing its home. ✨🦎