Organised by Wildlife Countryside LINK, the inaugural Wild Summit takes place at the Bristol Beacon on Thursday 11 September 2025.
From the Wild Summit website:
‘Nature brings immense value to our lives, to the economy and to communities. Whether it’s protecting communities from flooding and extreme weather, supporting rural areas and food production, helping tackle climate change, or improving our mental health, nature underpins it all.
At our first Wild Summit, we’ll bring together nature lovers, community campaigners, businesses, politicians, officials and policy experts for a day of presentations, panel discussions, workshops, and conversations focused on the critical importance of investing in nature. We’ll celebrate the incredible work being done by charities, community groups, innovators, and land managers, as well as explore the vital roles of tourism, research, upskilling, and corporate and government projects in restoring our natural world.
The goal? To help the UK meet its target of protecting 30% of land and sea by 2030‘.
Amongst the contributors is Wild Justice:
Past, Pheasant, Future
Why are 50 million non-native chickens released into our countryside every year?
Pheasants are a familiar feathered face of the countryside; plastered all over tea-towels, cushion covers, and our roads. But how did they get here? What impact are they having on our environment? And why are there so many?!
Join Wild Justice for an interactive and visual dive into the past, present and future of what George Monbiot describes as the ‘bronze plague’.
For the full programme of events, click here.
FAQs, click here.
To buy tickets, click here.
Raptor Persecution UK 
I have just finished reading “The return of the Grey Partridge” a book about creating a totally wild Grey Partridge shoot, no released birds. One of the first things the owner of the shoot insisted on was his gamekeepers ridding the area of Pheasants, his reason was the Pheasants destroy the Partridge nests some eat the eggs whilst others chase the Partridge out of cover making them vulnerable to predators. It would be foolish to think they don’t have a similar affect on other ground nesting birds