| WOODLAND | Protected by a conservation charity symbolised by two oak leaves, a green and shady type of habitat where trees are the dominant plants (8) |
| TRUST | National -; co-founded by Octavia Hill in 1895 and symbolised by a spray of oak leaves, a UK charity that preserves places of historic interest or natural beauty (5) |
| RSPB | Abbreviated name of a charity symbolised by an avocet (1,1,1,1) |
| PLEASANT | Welcome appeals by a conservation group (8) |
| ADAMANT | First person supported by a conservation group is determined (7) |
| NATURERESERVE | An area of land that is protected and managed to preserve a particular type of habitat (6,7) |
| POND | Type of habitat supporting two-thirds of all British freshwater species including common frog and great crested newt (4) |
| HEDGE | Originally planted to divide land, a word linked with "row" for a bushy type of habitat forming the British countryside (5) |
| HUE | It's a shady type of hot sauce when you don't have tacos (3) |
| LAIR | A type of habitat |
| OCHRE | Shady type of leader on the run taken in by revolutionary (5) |
| LOSS | The negative effects of habitat ____ and fragmentation on species can be mitigated by creating wildlife corridors that connect native habitats, nature reserves, and other protected areas (4) |
| IBERIAN | The common name for this most endangered large cat, a species of lynx limited to two populations spanning a few pockets of habitat in southwestern Spain. |
| CROWN | Headdress of laurel, oak leaves or gems with velvet, ermine and gold (5) |
| LIFE | Plant___ is the international conservation charity, working to secure a world rich in wild plants and fungi (4) |
| NATURAL | Type of habitat or blonde |
| SUNGLASSES | Shady type of star is seeing things? (10) |
| PALETTE | Shady type of pressure unsettled Attlee (7) |
| TAVERN | Father upset in shady type of bar (6) |
| CANOPY | Monitored in a conservation initiative highlighted on The Queen's Green Planet, the uppermost branches of trees forming forests (6) |
