Nature Needs You

The Fight to Save Our Swifts

Hannah Bourne-Taylor

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Elliott & Thompson Limited
01 May 2025

Pressure groups & lobbying; Conservation of the environment; Wildlife: birds & birdwatching

Nature Needs You tells the compelling story of how Hannah set out to save swifts from extinction in the UK. She launched her campaign from scratch, employing radical tactics to try to change the law and make ‘swift bricks’ mandatory to ensure that the birds who share our walls have a future in Britain. 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, survive the trolling and midnight self-doubt 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 that have become our symbol of summer, screaming in the skies above us.

Steeped in love for the wild, Nature Needs You is a clarion call to save the nature on our doorsteps and prove that passion can be a superpower in bringing change to nature-depleted Britain. Inspirational, funny, self-deprecating and unstoppable in turn, this is nature writing that reads like a thriller. Hannah is now knocking at the door of the new Labour Secretary of State for Housing, in the hope that, where Rishi Sunak and Michael Gove failed, Angela Rayner will save our swifts.

By: Hannah Bourne-Taylor
Imprint: Elliott & Thompson Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781783968688
ISBN 10: 1783968680
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 May 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hannah Bourne-Taylor is a conservationist, bird lover and author of the acclaimed nature memoir Fledgling (2022), described by The Observer as ‘intelligent, poetic and moving’. Dubbed ‘a voice for nature’ by the RSPB and with a loyal following on X for #firstbirdofmyday, Hannah is an award-winning nature-campaigner, named on the Ends Report green policymaking 2024 Power List. She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and their two Ghanaian rescue dogs.

Reviews for Nature Needs You: The Fight to Save Our Swifts

‘We save what we love. Reading Hannah’s story, compellingly told, you will fall in love with these increasingly endangered birds, true masters of the sky, and realise we must work together to save them.’ Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace Praise for Hannah Bourne-Taylor’s debut nature memoir Fledgling: ‘Intelligent, poetic and moving.’ THE OBSERVER ‘Thoughtful, entrancing and beguilingly honest’ WILLIAM BOYD ‘A story of hope, Fledgling gladdens the heart’ STEPHEN MOSS ‘A haunting and joyously immersive book’ RICHARD GIRLING ‘Heart-rending and heart-mending, Fledgling kindles a fierce fire and sense of protection for the wild’ JULIAN HOFFMAN ‘A tender, passionate and absorbing memoir, shot through with love for the natural world.' LEV PARIKIAN