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Home check

Check your home environment for ways that it can be more wildlife-friendly.
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Build a home for wildlife

Learn how to give wildlife a home in your garden. We have tips for building bird and bat boxes, hedgehog homes and more!
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At home with wildlife

From digging a wildlife pond to planting a bee-friendly window box, there’s always something that you can do to help the wildlife on your doorstep.
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Herring gull

The herring gull is the typical 'seagull' of our seaside resorts, though our coastal populations have declined in recent decades.

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Beavers are coming home!

The Wildlife Trusts congratulate the UK Government’s decision to open the door for licenced reintroductions of beavers into the wild and its acknowledgment of the free-living populations in…

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Approaching your MP

By writing to your MP or meeting them in person, you can help them to understand the part they have to play in stopping the loss of wildlife and creating a #WilderFuture.
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How to go peat free at home

Go peat free to protect the planet! Peat has been a major ingredient of the compost used in gardening for many years. This peat is dug out of wild places, damaging some of the last remaining peatlands in both the UK and overseas in places like Eastern Europe. Find out how to go peat free at home...
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How to build a hedgehog home

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

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How to go peat free at home

Our homes and gardens have an important role in the fight against climate change. Help preserve vital peatland by going peat free.

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Pledge your Christmas

Pledge your Christmas and ask for donations instead of gifts this year to help Somerset Wildlife Trust continue to protect Somerset's wildlife and wild places.