Sir David Attenborough, Stephen Fry, Catherine Tate, Alison Steadman and Asim Chaudhry all star in in a new two minute Wind in the Willows film trailer created by The Wildlife Trusts.

The trailer brings to life the real 21st century threats facing the much-loved characters from Kenneth Grahame’s children’s classic: Badger, Ratty, Mole and Toad. It calls on everyone to help bring our wildlife back before it’s too late, so that we can all enjoy a wilder future.

We see how the lives of Badger, Ratty, Mole and Toad have been disrupted by roads, river pollution and intensive agriculture – many habitats have been destroyed and others have been broken up. Toad hangs a picture of a puffin entangled in plastic on the wall in Toad Hall. “Farewell old friend” he says.

Kenneth Grahame wrote The Wind in the Willows just over a hundred years ago. Since then, many of the UK’s wild places and the plants and animals that depend on them have been lost. For example: 97 percent of lowland meadows and the beautiful wildflowers, insects, mammals and birds that they supported have disappeared; 80 percent of our beautiful purple heathlands have vanished – with their blaeberries, sand lizards and the stunning nocturnal birds, nightjars. Rivers are in deep trouble too: only 20 percent are considered as healthy and 13 percent of freshwater and wetland species in Great Britain are threatened with extinction.

Kenneth Grahame’s Ratty – the water vole – is the UK’s most rapidly declining mammal and has been lost from 94 percent of places where it was once prevalent, and its range is continuing to contract. Toad is also finding that times are very tough: he has lost nearly 70 percent of his own kind in the last 30 years alone – and much more than that in the last century.

These losses have led to the UK becoming one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world.

Stephanie Hilborne, CEO of The Wildlife Trusts, said: “We are a nation of nature-lovers, yet we live in one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. If we want to put nature into recovery we have to create a mass movement of people calling for change.

The film will be playing in 500 cinemas across the UK for another three days, or you can watch the trailer here