Six things you can do to support nature

Cultivate a wildlife-friendly garden

Practise sustainable gardening. Choose native plants that attract wildlife. Avoid plastic lawns at all costs. If you’re looking for low maintenance, just mow your lawn less frequently – or not at all. Better still, turn your lawn into a wildflower meadow and make your garden extraordinary. The pollinators and other wildlife will thank you for it.

Wetlands worldwide are under threat. We’re highlighting the importance of these freshwater havens to ensure they receive greater conservation attention. Here in the UK, the loss of precious wetlands has left water-dependent wildlife homeless. Put a pond in your garden, however small, and you’ll be amazed what turns up.

The world’s peatlands are one of the unsung heroes in our struggle to tackle climate change. By using peat-free compost in your own garden or window box, you can help protect threatened peat bogs closer to home in the UK and Ireland.

Volunteer your labour

Wanting to get your hands dirty and immerse yourself in nature? Find a rewilding project. Help plant some native trees, erect a deer-proof fence, or remove the rampant rhododendrons and other invasive species that outcompete other plants. Or organise a clean-up of a beach or river near you and help tackle the scourge of nurdles and other plastic pollution.

If that’s too strenuous, why not help fund a beach clean on the coast of Myanmar or Cambodia, or the remote archipelago of São Tomé and Príncipe, where the communities Fauna & Flora works with are removing plastic waste and other threats to nesting sea turtles?

Join Fauna & Flora

In addition to taking action for nature close to home, and helping to protect the environment here in the UK, you can also help support the communities and individuals around the world who are stepping up as nature’s champions, often in the face of incredible adversity. They’re often constrained by conflict, politics, practical difficulties in the field, or lack of resources. Fauna & Flora works with these people in over 40 countries worldwide, supporting their heroic efforts to make the world a better place. With a regular gift or monthly donation, you can be part of that collective global push to change the story for nature, helping to halt and reverse the loss of the extraordinary species that keep our planet healthy and enrich our daily lives.