Nature Needs You (The Fight to Save Our Swifts)

LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2025 The inspirational story of a bird lover who became a nature-warrior in a David v Goliath battle to save swifts from extinction. Nature Needs You tells the compelling story of how Hannah, without campaigning experience, funding or contacts, set out to save swifts from extinction in the UK. Her mission is to change the law and make ‘ swift bricks’ mandatory so that the birds who nest in our walls will have a future. Nature Needs You delves into the highs and lows of trying to win hearts and minds, grab the news agenda with her naked Feather Speech, win Caroline Lucas and Lord Zac Goldsmith’ s support, and raise a petition with the requisite 100,000 signatures for a Parliamentary debate. At stake, with a decline in numbers of over 60% since 1995, are the birds who have become our symbol of summer, the swifts screaming in the skies above us. Steeped in love for the wild, by a talented writer, Nature Needs You is a raw and funny clarion call to save the nature on our doorsteps and to prove that passion can be a superpower in bringing change to nature-depleted Britain.