Other BBC programmes around the wildlife series Wild Isles

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To accompany Wild Isles, through the Spring and Summer across the BBC there is a major focus on nature, designed to deepen audiences’ understanding and inspire them to get involved.

BBC Radio 2 with BBC Children’s and Education, supported by The One Show and others, are launching Let it Grow – an initiative to turn grey spaces into wild and colourful places, with a focus on tempting even the least green fingered to join in. Blue Peter viewers can earn their Blue Peter Green badges by getting involved and there will also be an OZT Goes Wild in Britain special on domestic wildlife. BBC Sport will be highlighting grassroots clubs up and down the country doing great work in preserving and promoting nature – as well as reflecting what is happening at the elite level – challenging more to get involved.

Sunday Morning Live will be turning the spotlight on how churchyards, as well as other religious spaces, can make a difference. Countryfile will be showing audiences how to take the next step for nature, after planting, with Wild Britain following on from their hugely successful Plant Britain campaign. And BBC drama series, Doctors, is celebrating the launch of Wild Isles by devoting a storyline to the team rallying to save a wildlife corridor that is under threat of development.

The BBC will be inviting local communities to Get Into Nature, be that for their mental or physical health, for their community, for the environment or simply for fun. BBC Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will also be reflecting the focus on nature in their output.

And to escape the challenges of the day to day, without even needing to leave their own home, audiences can immerse themselves in Radio 3’s The Sounds of the BBC’s Wild Isles podcast. The relaxing 30 minutes, following a river from source to sea, will also be taken to UK music festivals as a chill-out experience, by BBC Live Music Events.

To accompany the activity on-air, the BBC has worked in partnership with multiple external organisations, including Art Fund, Girlguiding, the National Trust, RHS, Scouts and The Wildlife Trusts, who have created real world opportunities, activities and events for audiences to directly experience nature. A dedicated website www.bbc.co.uk/wildisles will host details, along with additional resources and branding for community groups who want to get involved and hold their own ‘Inspired by Wild Isles’ event.

Pan BBC sustainability

Environmental and sustainability issues have long been reflected in the content we make and broadcast, so it’s important to us that they are also embedded in the way we operate and run the BBC.

We are working on solutions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within our own industry, protect the biodiversity of the world we interact with, while also enhancing our audiences’ understanding of climate change and what’s needed to transition to Net Zero.

Our aim is to meet the Science Based Targets (SBTs), set in October 2021, to cut our GHG emissions to Net Zero and which are in line with staying below the threshold of 1.5 degrees of global warming.

We’re also focussed on protecting the natural world around us. Currently, we’re aligning to a framework set out by the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) which guides organisations in reporting on the risks from biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation. As part of the project, the BBC is investigating its own operational impact on the environment and we have conducted an initial bio-diversity footprint study, in conjunction with a specialist team from the University of Oxford.

More details on our work to become a Net Zero broadcaster are available on the BBC’s Sustainability website.

Notes to Editors

• We have more ancient oak trees than the whole of Europe put together [Source: Hebrian Plants, Oxford University]

• 75,000 pairs of gannets arrive on Bass Rock to nest [Source: Scottish Seabird Centre]

• Britain is listed as the worst country in the G7 for wildlife and wild spaces lost due to human activity [Source: Natural History Museum]

• White-tailed eagles are a good example of how the restoration of habitats and the reintroduction of species has enabled us to film lost behaviours [Source: The Wildlife Trusts]

• We are custodians to more than 50% of the world’s common bluebells and we have 85% of the worlds chalk streams [Bluebells source: The Wildlife Trusts] [Chalk stream source: WWF]

• We are still one of least biodiverse countries in the world, making it important that we protect and restore the wildlife we have [Source: Biodiversity Intactness Study]

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Date: Sunday, 12 March, 2023
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Updates: Confirmed for BBC One on 12 March at 7pm to 8pm.

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March 8, 2023 5:00am ET by BBC One  

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