DofE Actions for Nature

Solitary bees are important pollinators and a gardener’s friend. Help them by building a bee hotel for your home or garden and watch…

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

Learn about companion planting, friendly pest control, organic repellents and how wildlife and growing vegetables can go hand in hand.…

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.

Pots and containers are a great way of introducing wildlife features onto patios, or outside the front door. They are also perfect for…

The best plants for bumblebees! Bees are important pollinating insects, but they are under threat. You can help them by planting…

Provide food for caterpillars and choose nectar-rich plants for butterflies and you’ll have a colourful, fluttering display in your…

Gardening doesn’t need to be restricted to the ground - bring your walls to life for wildlife! Many types of plants will thrive in a…

It might surprise you, but even the smallest of gardens can accommodate a tree!

Putting out a bit of food can help see mammals like hedgehogs through colder spells.

Set up a ‘nectar café’ by planting flowers for pollinating insects like bees and butterflies

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

All animals need water to survive. By providing a water source in your garden, you can invite in a whole menagerie!

In the spring, birds choose the best locations to build nests, so why not offer them a safe place to settle?

Surfaced spaces needn't exclude wildlife! Gravel can often be the most wildlife-friendly solution for a particular area.

Hedges provide important shelter and protection for wildlife, particularly nesting birds and hibernating insects.

Plant flowers that release their scent in the evening to attract moths and, ultimately, bats looking for an insect-meal into your garden…

Learn a tradition with its roots in the Iron Age and build your own mini dry stone wall to attract wildlife.

Few of us can contemplate having a wood in our back gardens, but just a few metres is enough to establish this mini-habitat!

Instead of draining, make the waterlogged or boggy bits of garden work for nature, and provide a valuable habitat.

Woody shrubs and climbers provide food for wildlife, including berries, fruits, seeds, nuts leaves and nectar-rich flowers. So why not…

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

A wildlife pond is one of the single best features for attracting new wildlife to the garden.

Log piles are perfect hiding places for insects, providing a convenient buffet for frog, birds, and hedgehogs too!

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

Find out how to attract birds into your garden all year round.

With natural nesting sites in decline, adding a nestbox to your garden can make all the difference to your local birds.

Instead of sending your green waste to landfill, create your own compost.

Plant wildflower with seed bombs!

Build your own bug mansion and attract a multitude of creepy crawlies to your garden.

Be a wildlife saviour and do a litter pick or beach clean!

Even a small pond can be home to an interesting range of wildlife, including damsel and dragonflies, frogs and newts.

Nestboxes can harbour parasites so it is good practice to take them down at the end of the season and give them a clean. Likewise it is…

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

Swifts like to leave their nests by dropping into the air from the entrance. This is why they often choose to set up camp in the eaves…

Water butts lower the risks of local flooding and will reduce water bills by conserving the water you already have. They're great…

Sending letters 'to the Editor' of local newspapers is another great way to speak up for wildlife.