Help us Fight the 6th Mass Extinction

The world is facing the sixth mass extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature estimate that there are currently 16,306 endangered animal and plant species in the world. Together we can play our collective part to protect them by increasing biodiversity in the Sussex area.

Join us in fundraising for biodiversity projects, that can help increase the diversity of local animal and plant life and to enable us to set aside more of our campus land for nature as we work towards our vision of creating the most biodiverse university in the UK.

Your money will help to fund a number of practical biodiversity projects, involving our staff, students and local community.

We have recently launched a major engagement exercise on which projects to support via our Big Biodiversity Conversation. This process allows people to suggest biodiversity projects close to their heart that we can support and get under way with the money we raise.

Examples of the types of project that your money is likely to support includes increasing the biodiversity of our existing green space, planting living walls and installing bee hotels, hoverfly lagoons and hedgehog houses.

You can help us achieve these goals

All donations to this campaign will go towards a fund for supporting biodiversity projects on and around our campus in the local Sussex area.

Staff, students and our community partners will be able to use this fund to deliver real improvements to biodiversity to help us become one of the most biodiverse campuses in the UK.

Thank you for helping us to protect the planet

You can get involved by signing up to walk, run or cycle at the 2022 Brighton Marathon Weekend or by making a gift on this page to support biodiversity projects at Sussex. Thank you for helping us to create a greener university for a better world, a place of hope for the future, where we are one of the most sustainable universities in the world.

You can find out more about our ambitious Sustainable Sussex Strategy, which we published in July 2021. It includes a range of targets and action plans to help us reach our vision of being one of the most sustainable universities in the world, including a target of achieving Net Zero by 2035.

See our Biodiversity Strategy & Draft Biodiversity Policy [PDF] for details about our biodiversity targets, strategy and potential projects.