A charity wants to raise £70,000 for a project aimed at boosting wildlife populations on farmland in the Thames Valley.

The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) said the money would form part of its Nature Recovery Fund and would be used to tackle falling numbers of birds, bees and butterflies.

The trust said farmland bird populations had fallen by 63% since 1970, while half of the UK's 27 bumblebee species were in decline.