Environment campaigners are urging everyone who cares for nature to unite and march through London to Parliament Square on Saturday 22 June, with a simple demand to all political parties: Restore Nature Now.

This legal demonstration aims to be the biggest gathering of people for nature and climate that the UK has seen and is both a celebration of UK nature and a protest for urgent political action on the nature and climate emergencies.

The Restore Nature Now march will be a peaceful, inclusive and family-friendly event. It is supported by Extinction Rebellion and a diverse range of the country’s biggest and best-known wildlife and environmental organisations – including the RSPB, The Wildlife Trusts, The Climate Coalition, WWF-UK, National Trust, WWT, Woodland Trust, Wildlife and Countryside Link and Rewilding Britain – as well as TV broadcaster and wildlife campaigner Chris Packham. Together we are warning that this General Election must be a turning point for nature before it is too late. [1]

Etienne Stott MBE, Olympian and Extinction Rebellion UK spokesperson said: “I’m really excited that Extinction Rebellion UK is going to be out on the streets with such a great variety of friends and allies who are all passionate about protecting and restoring nature. Biodiversity loss, habitat destruction and climate breakdown are now at breaking point. I’m deeply worried and I know huge numbers of others are too. The only way we are going to do anything about it is if we all come together and pull in the same direction. This demonstration, a follow up from The Big One last year, is a start to bringing this fight to the mainstream and getting everyone who cares about our planet and all life on earth to bring about radical and urgent change. Restoring nature will be a key consideration for the increasingly vital citizens’ assembly on the climate and nature emergencies that we have been demanding from the government since 2019.”

Beccy Speight, RSPB CEO said: “Here in the UK, we care deeply about nature. But last year’s State of Nature report laid out a grim picture, finding that there’s been no let-up in the decline of our wildlife over recent decades, with one in six species now at risk of being lost from our shores. But there is hope: while we know the threats, we also know the solutions. But we simply aren’t acting fast enough or at a big enough scale to tackle the nature and climate crisis. We’re calling for urgent action and a much stronger commitment to nature’s recovery from politicians of all parties, because we cannot afford to wait any longer.”