Brian May’s Save Me Trust

The Save Me Trust works to create new habitats and protect our most remarkable and precious wildlife, bringing nature back to its wild state. It also supports a wildlife rescue centre where veterinary surgeons and state-of-the-art equipment provide emergency care to our native bats, hedgehogs, foxes, badgers and much more.

The UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. The Save Me Trust works in the most sensitive way, so that wildlife flourishes – they work with nature, making changes slowly and with a ‘no kill’ policy. This work goes beyond critical care intervention - the programme also includes secure soft-release sites to reintroduce outpatients back into the wild in a safe and sustainable way. The focus is on making a real tangible difference to British wildlife today as well as longer-term research and education to protect it into the future.

The Save Me Trust manages private land, purchased and protected specifically for this purpose by Brian May, for example land that was wilderness-deprived commercial forest or farmland. They enhance and create wildflower meadows, protect the land from hunting, manage and engineer water courses and plant hedgerows, all providing cover for multitude of animals and enabling natural breaking down and composting the woodland floor and keeping it healthy.

The Save Me Trust starts with a detailed survey of the land to understand what is already there, so that they can preserve it. They consider any soil types, weather conditions and existing flora and fauna. Regular monitoring and surveying of wildlife shows the impact of the work. At the rescue centre patient numbers are carefully recorded and monitored, as are the releases and long-term tracking of outcomes among released animals.

19 Mar 2022

UK