The Countryside Restoration Trust
The Countryside Restoration Trust was established in 1993 by the Chairman, Robin Page and the late artist and conservationist, Gordon Beningfield.
Launched in response to growing fears about intensive and industrialised farming, the CRT initially aimed to purchase land which had been intensively farmed, in order to restore it to a living countryside, rather than a lifeless food factory. As the CRT has grown its aims have broadened to encompass purchasing farmland and woodland where traditional farming methods, wildlife habitat and biodiversity are under threat.
The CRT promotes a working countryside using sensitive and sympathetic farming practices that encourage and protect wildlife to produce quality food.
Why Support Us
We all have a responsibility to look after our environment which is composed of innumerable complex and interlinking systems of flora and fauna that together maintain an essential balance.
Over the years much damage has occurred to our countryside and farming, with large areas of ordinary countryside and familiar species disappearing. We want to put a stop to this.
We believe that conservation should not be concentrated on preserving ‘islands’ of specialist habitats and endangered species in nature reserves.
The Countryside Restoration Trust is dedicated to restoring and protecting the wider countryside and its wildlife. Our aim is for conservation improvements to be carried out alongside practical farming and land management and to spread these aims by example and education.
For further information: https://www.countrysiderestorationtrust.com/
