Wildlife gardening - The Wildlife Trusts
The Wildlife Trusts have some expert wildlife gardening advice on how to create habitat in your garden to make it a nature-friendly space. Wildlife gardening is a way of encouraging birds, bees, butterflies and other animals into your garden.
Wildlife gardens - The Wildlife Trusts
Find the best wildlife gardens to visit around Britain, and perhaps take home some inspiration to make your own home a little wilder, helping wildlife along the way!
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The Wildlife Trusts are a federation of 46 independent wildlife conservation charities covering the whole of the UK. We manage nature reserves, help children to learn about nature and campaign to protect our seas.
Wildlife in gardens / RHS
Private garden space in Britain cover about 728,900 hectares (1,801,151 acres) so their potential as a haven for wildlife is considerable. Many already provide food, shelter and breeding sites for a wide range of animals which increases the interest and enjoyment of a garden.
Gardens and wildlife – the BUGS project - British Wildlife
There are estimated to be about 25 million dwellings in the UK, of which a high proportion have associated domestic gardens. Such gardens are familiar, providing many of us with our first encounters with the 'natural' world, and being the topic of endless attention in the popular media.
Our Gardens - Natural History Museum
Adventure awaits in our new gardens – a paradise for little explorers and time travellers. Your little adventurers will love exploring our new gardens. Whizzed back into the past, they’ll get to touch the oldest rock in Britain and feel real fossil ammonites and trilobites.
Wild About Gardens
The Wildlife Trusts and the RHS set up Wild About Gardens to celebrate wildlife gardening and to encourage people to use their gardens to take action to help support nature. Many of our common garden visitors – including hedgehogs, house sparrows and …
A year of British garden wildlife - Natural History Museum
Jul 21, 2017 · Gardens provide a huge range of habitats, giving shelter and food to a wealth of British wildlife that you may not realise is literally on your doorstep.
The value of gardens for wildlife - British Wildlife
Dec 2, 2001 · In the revised edition, Baines (2000) writes that 'There is no doubt that gardening with wildlife makes a positive difference. Certainly it helps our birds and butterflies to survive, but most importantly it brings so many people face to face with nature on a daily basis'.
Wildlife Gardening | BTO - British Trust for Ornithology
A garden that is good for wildlife is likely to be a stable ecosystem in its own right, integrated with the landscape around it and providing a diversity of micro-habitats within its boundaries. Such stability has advantages for you, the gardener, as well.