#TeamWilder - Individual | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

Artist's impression of people in a community taking action for nature

Take action for wildlife at home

What you do at home can have a massive impact on nature both in your garden and much further afield through lifestyle and food choices.

Take small steps to make your outdoor space more wildlife friendly or join forces with your neighbours to create hedgehog friendly streets, swift friendly estates, or a community garden.

This page is packed with resources to help you to get you thinking, growing, and building for wildlife.

#TeamWilder Toolkits

Follow the links below to download our amazing guides and toolkits.

Red-tailed bumblebee on bird's foot trefoil

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Quick wins for wildlife

If you only have a small space, limited budget, and little time you might want to consider these actions that anyone can do.

Swift

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How to Help our Hero Species

This guide contains all you need to know about how you can make a real and lasting difference to their recovery.

Finches on a bird feeder

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Wildlife Actions – Food

How to ensure you provide enough food to support a variety of wildlife throughout the year.

A bull finch sat in a tree

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Wildlife Actions – Growing Shelter

Vital for insects, birds, small mammals & amphibians - build shelter to support wildlife.

A number of bamboo canes and stick ends

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Wildlife Actions – Building Shelter

Vital for insects, birds, small mammals & amphibians - build shelter to support wildlife.

ground view of a garden pond with pebbles around the edge and the house in the background

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Wildlife Actions – Water

Whether big or small, your outdoor space can help to provide vital wetland habitats for a whole host of wildlife.

An area in the garden showing a ‘tangle’ (a wild corner where brambles and nettles have been left to thrive)

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Wildlife Actions – Management

Advice on how to manage your space in a wildlife friendly way.

A hedgehog in a back garden

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Wildlife Actions – Connectivity

How to create connections between your space, your community and your surrounding landscape.

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Green Living Toolkit

Our Green Living Toolkit contains lots of helpful information to help you live a more sustainable and wildlife friendly lifestyle.

Chantelle Lindsay and Bobbi Benjamin-Ward are sat at a picnic table building bird boxes. Cel Spellman is standing next to them also building a bird box.

© Broni Lloyd-Edwards

Share your story

Share your news on social media by tagging in Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and using #TeamWilder.

We’d love to hear about what you do for nature. Please share your stories with us using the link below! Alternatively, you can email us at team.wilder@ywt.org.uk

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More ways to get involved

Could your garden qualify for the Wildlife Gardening Award?

Get your garden growing for wildlife this year and you could qualify for a plaque to display with pride!

Take part in the Great Yorkshire Creature Count!

Spot, count and record wildlife in your garden during the 24th and 25th June in the Great Yorkshire Creature Count.