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Ways to support wildlife

Small daily choices, the groups doing the heavy lifting, petitions worth signing, and events you can turn up to.

Do

  • Log every sighting — even sparrows and pigeons. Baseline data matters.
  • Leave leaf litter, log piles and long grass in at least one patch of your garden.
  • Plant native species — they support 10–100× more insect life than ornamentals.
  • Fit cat bells and keep cats indoors at dawn and dusk.
  • Turn outdoor lights off after 11pm — light pollution disorients moths, bats and birds.
  • Choose peat-free compost. Peatlands lock away more carbon than all the world's forests.

Don't

  • Don't feed bread to ducks, geese or swans — it causes wing deformities.
  • Don't use slug pellets, neonicotinoid pesticides or rodenticides — they travel up the food chain.
  • Don't 'rescue' baby birds or deer fawns unless clearly injured — the parent is almost always nearby.
  • Don't pick wildflowers or forage without knowing the local rules.
  • Don't release pet fish, turtles, or plants into the wild — invasive species are a leading cause of extinction.
  • Don't share exact locations of rare or persecuted species publicly (raptor nests, orchids).

Petitions worth signing

One-click pressure on the policy decisions that shape wildlife's future.

Groups worth funding

Vetted conservation organisations. £5/month keeps more habitat wild than most one-off gestures.

Events to turn up to

Bioblitzes, citizen-science counts and habitat workdays. Free, family-friendly, high-impact.

The biggest thing you can do

Keep logging what you see.

Every sighting in this app becomes an open data point that researchers and policymakers use to protect habitats.

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