Eat more plant-based foods, reduce your food waste and buy local produce to shrink your environmental footprint.

Use the blank canvas of your garden to make a home for wildlife.

Lend a helping hand to wildlife in hot weather. Keep your watering stations topped up with water, and let some of your garden grow wild to provide shade for animals.

Build your own bat box and give a bat a safe place to roost.

Grow plants that help each other! Maximise your garden for you and for wildlife using this planting technique.

There are plenty of ways you can take action against climate change in your own backyard or local greenspace.

By providing safe places for hedgehogs to live, you’re much more likely to see these prickly creatures in your garden.

Help hedgehogs get around by making holes and access points in fences and barriers to link up the gardens in your neighbourhood.

Planting herbs will attract important pollinators into your garden, which will, in turn, attract birds and small mammals looking for a meal.

Coastal gardening can be a challenge, but with the right plants in the right place, your garden and its wildlife visitors can thrive.