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A new partnership between The Wildlife Trusts and leading media and infrastructure company Bauer Media Outdoor is set to bring green-roofed bus stops buzzing with life to even more locations across the UK.

The pioneering five-year partnership announced today will help save wildlife in towns and cities and bring people closer to nature, through living bus stops and other urban greening campaigns which will engage the public.

Bauer Media Outdoor's bus stops and other street furniture have been shaping towns and cities for decades. As urban biodiversity becomes increasingly critical, the partnership with The Wildlife Trusts will support Bauer Media Outdoor in its mission to make the UK鈥檚 urban areas more welcoming to animals and insects - as well as humans - and encourage local councils to make more environmentally conscious choices.

Our Living Roofs have already been carefully assessed for their wildlife credentials by The Wildlife Trusts and classified as having 鈥淗igh Strategic Significance.鈥� Local Authorities will now additionally benefit from the expert guidance of their local Wildlife Trusts to place the Living Roofs in locations that will have the biggest positive impact for wildlife and the local community, and play an active part in tackling the decline of insects.

The Wildlife Trusts鈥� report,聽Insect Declines and Why They Matter,聽outlined how we have lost more than 50% of insects since 1970, and showed that聽41% of the Earth's remaining five million insect species are now threatened with extinction.聽

Bauer Media Outdoor aims to have installed 150 of the bee bus stops across the country by the end of 2022, with over 40 already in situ from as far north as Glasgow, and down to Brighton on the south coast.

The bus stops will also help wildlife by promoting The Wildlife Trusts鈥� campaigns such as聽30 Days Wild聽(pictured*). Every year thousands of people enjoy taking part in the UK鈥檚 biggest nature challenge by pledging to do something wild each day in June. Everyone who signs up to do the聽30 Days Wild聽challenge receives a free pack full of inspiration guiding supporters through the month. Favourite activities during 2021 included al-fresco dining, planting wildflowers seeds and listening to birdsong.

Bauer Media Outdoor's Co-Managing Director Will Ramage says:

鈥淲e鈥檙e overjoyed to be working with The Wildlife Trusts, a vital, respected national movement working for the good of our environment. When we first developed the Living Roofs, we knew we were onto something important. To now have The Wildlife Trusts verifying their credentials and helping us to locate them in the best possible places helps us to have even more of a positive impact on the environment and local communities.鈥�

鈥淥ur advertising estate was made for the likes of The Wildlife Trusts 鈥� ready and raring to broadcast important messages up and down the UK and encouraging the public to take action.鈥�

The Wildlife Trusts鈥� director development, Thirzah McSherry, says:

鈥淲e鈥檙e really excited to be involved in these brilliant bee bus stops. We鈥檙e living through a nature and climate crisis and we need to use every tool we鈥檝e got to tackle it 鈥� which means thinking creatively. These green-roofed bus stops do just that by taking advantage of urban opportunities to help increase the amount of space for nature throughout our towns and cities, contributing to a wider nature recovery network and hopefully getting people to stop and think about the steps we can all take too to bring nature back. We鈥檙e thrilled to work with Bauer Media Outdoor because they鈥檝e shown that they take the nature crisis seriously and are committed to taking action to combat it.鈥�