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How to help wildlife this winter

Find out how you can get involved by visiting the websites of our featured wildlife and conservation organisations.

Useful links for how to help wildlife

  • Join in the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch 26-28 January

  • Watch seals responsibly

    Guidance posters from Seal Alliance

  • A blog from Peter Lau

  • With the Marine Conservation Society

  • Advice from Seal Alliance

  • A campaign from Butterfly Conservation

  • Make a nature friendly lawn with Plant Life

  • From the Wildlife Trusts and partners

  • Guides from The Wildlife Trusts for community action

  • Harvest mice surveys with the Mammal Society

  • Use the mammal mapper app in the Scottish uplands

  • Mammal Society advice about garden feeding

  • A survey from the BTO to help conserve overwintering gulls

  • Become a goose and swan monitoring volunteer with BTO

  • Dissect owl pellets with the Mammal Society

  • Advice from the BTO to keep your feeders and baths clean

  • Help the Marine Conservation Society to fight litter

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  • For the very best of your nature photos and videos

  • Use #Winterwatch to see what's going on and keep up to date

  • Enjoy some outstanding photography in our Flickr group