No wetlands. No fairytale ending.

Nearly half of the UK’s amphibians are at risk of extinction. Please give today.

Double your impact

All donations doubled through Big Give Earth Raise. 22-29 April only.

Help us urgently raise £50,000 to protect frogs, toads and newts this spring.

Frogs and toads have always filled our fairy tales and story books with magic. But right now they’re not filling our ponds and wetlands like they used to.

In fact, nearly half of all UK amphibians are now at risk of extinction from threats like climate change and deadly water pollution. Will you help them fight back?

We have an emergency plan to restore UK wetlands, protect ponds and give amphibians the fairytale ending they deserve. But we need to raise £50,000 this spring to put it into action. Please give now.

Double your impact

When you donate during Big Give Earth Raise your gift will be doubled! We can unlock £10,000 of matched funding – but only if generous supporters donate £10,000 by 29 April

Double my donation

How your donation will protect amphibians

£20 could support running a school session for children to learn about ponds and the wonderful wildlife that lives within them.

£50 could pay for tools like spades, rakes, and buckets needed when restoring a small pond for amphibians.

£125 could contribute to a WWT member meeting a farmer for a morning and advising on creating ponds within their land.

Double your impact

Nearly half of the UK’s amphibians are at risk of extinction. Please give today.

Donate now

Big Give Earth Raise

We’re part of Big Give’s Earth Raise campaign for 2026, where you can double your donation to help amphibians and support our Climate Resilience Fund.

From 22-29 April, donations you make via the Big Give website will be matched. So, every £1 donated becomes £2 – doubling your impact without any additional cost to you.

: Big Give is the UK’s leading match fundraising charity and has raised over £1bn for good causes in the last decade.

: When you donate to WWT through our Big Give page, your donation will be matched by generous pledgers and champion funders. So, for example, a £20 donation will become a £40 donation.

: Your donation will be matched by generous pledges from companies and individuals who support The Big Give.

: You will be told if matching funds are available or not when you donate. When donating, match funds are reserved for 30 minutes to complete the donation. All donations are matched in real-time, and you can see how much match funding has been allocated to your donation.

: For your donation to be doubled you must donate via our Big Give page between 12pm 22 April to 12pm 29 April. However, if you’d like to donate after this time, you can donate here to WWT at any time.

: Donations will be doubled up to maximum of £10,000 (total pot of £20,000). If we reach that total, every gift will still make a vital difference to help amphibians and support our Climate Resilience Fund.

: No, only your donation will be matched.

: All donations will go to our Climate Resilience Fund which supports projects that will benefit amphibians amongst other wetland species.

: This is not obligatory, and you can simply move the sliding scale to £0.

"Climate change is hitting frogs, toads and newts from every angle. Ponds are turning to dust in the summer. Hibernating amphibians are waking up too early in warmer winters – before the food they rely on is available. We have to act now."

Leigh Marshall, Head of Reserves