Bid to raise £1m to save declining wildlife in Surrey

A charity is aiming to raise £1m to restore and protect wildlife in Surrey.

Surrey Wildlife Trust said the “climate and biodiversity crisis” was threatening the county’s natural habitats.

It added that one third of the county’s species, including hedgehogs, yellowhammers, European eels, lesser spotted woodpeckers, harvest mice, hazel dormice and wrynecks, were “in serious decline or already extinct”.

The charity’s chief executive, Sarah-Jane Chimbwandira, said: “Now is the time to think and act, nature’s decline must stop here.”