Mental Health Awareness Week 2021 : Wildlife Corner 13-05-2021
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The theme for this year's Mental Health Awareness Week is 'Nature and the Environment'.
We are witnessing the rapid decline of British wildlife
The future of the planet's wildlife. One in seven species are threatened with extinction, and 41% of species studied have experienced decline since 1970. Our everyday actions can make a huge difference to the future of British wildlife and what better time to start:
Creating a wildlife friendly garden:
- Plating for Honeybees by Sarah Wyndham Lewis
- How to make a bee-friendly garden by Gardener's World
- Nine ways to build a wildlife friendly garden by the National Trust
- Wildlife Gardening by the Wildlife Trust
- How to Build an Insect Home by the Eden Project
- Garden for a Living London by London Wildlife Trust
- Attract Birds to your Garden by Gardener's World
Citizen Science Projects:
- Big Garden Birdwatch – RSPB
- Big Butterfly Count – Butterfly Conservations
- Shore Search – Wildlife Trust
- Hedgerows Heros (Surrey) – Wildlife Trust
- Hedgehog Citizen Science (Wiltshire) – Wildlife Trust
- River Search (Cumbria) – Wildlife Trust
- Reptile Reporting (Cheshire) – Wildlife Trust
- Big Seaweed Search – Natural History Museum
- Earth Watchers
Books:
- Back to Nature: How to Love Life – and Save It by Chris Packham
- The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wolleben
- Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
- A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by Sir David Attenborough
- Inspire: Life Lessons from the Wilderness by Ben Fogle
- Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways to Make Nature More Visible by Simon Branes
Tree Planting:
- Planting Trees with the Woodland Trust
- Trees for Cities
- The Tree Council
- Tell your Council to Plant Trees
