For an overview of practical ways to save money and reduce our carbon footprints

have a look at this page on Wiltshire Council's website
which provides lots of tips and useful information for
(i) your home (ii) when travelling and (iii) your garden.

Key Actions to Help NAture ... & Us!

Lobby politicians to prioritise action on the climate and biodiversity crisis:

 

Contact our MP

lots of us doing this can have a big impact

 

MPs want to know what we care about - their job is to represent us in Parliament.  We can ask them to help stop the loss of wildlife, speak up for nature, prioritise climate issues and champion ambitious measures (including strong environment laws) to create a better, nature-friendly world. 

See The Wildlife Trusts advice and info about writing to or meeting with our MP.

* Refuse * Reduce * Reuse * Repurpose!

We are using the equivalent of 1.6 Earths to maintain our current way of life and ecosystems cannot keep up with our demands

Think

Do you need it? Can you make do with less? Can you reuse / use it for something else?

Garden for Wildlife:

 

Make space for nature and help turn the UK's 24 million gardens into a life-line network of nature reserves

 

Wildlife-friendly gardening
(overview)

Work with, not against, nature:

Explore non-car travel options:

Support verges being “wilder”

97% of wildflower meadows lost since 1930 so wildflower-rich verges are now essential for nature - each mile can feed millions of pollinators every year.

Wilts Council’s new verge cutting regime is an encouraging start.

Support

efforts to allow habitat for wild flowers and insect life in our verges (where safe) - and enjoy the flowers!

See if your bank/pension/savings is harming our climate and biodiversity -

check how much they may be contributing and consider switching.

 

Since 2015 banks have pumped over £4.4 trillion into supporting the fossil fuel industry.

Reduce Food Waste:

 

If food waste were a country, it would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases

Just stopping binning bread alone could be as effective as planting 5.3 million trees!

In the UK, 70% of food waste occurs in our homes (4.5 million tonnes of food worth £3.5 billion thrown away every year).

Help make your street hedgehog-friendly

 

Hedgehogs were put on the IUCN 'Red List' as vulnerable to extinction in Great Britain in 2020. Their decline continues in rural areas:

Become a hedgehog champion!

Help protect our brooks:

  • Buy eco-friendly - many cosmetics, soaps, washing-up liquids and cleaning products can be harmful to wildlife with long-lasting effects.
     

  • Avoid disposing of medicines, chemicals, fats or oils down the sink, toilet or drain.

 

  • Only flush the three P’s: pee, poop and toilet paper (not even paper hankies or paper towels - these products cause problems because they are designed to absorb water, not disolve in it).

 

  • Reduce your use of water wherever you can.

 

Support the Nature 2030

five point plan:

Ask political leaders to make these five key actions General Election pledges to save nature:

  1. A pay-rise for nature.

  2. Make polluters pay.

  3. More space for nature.

  4. A National Nature Service.

  5. A right to a healthy environment.

Help make our current food system more sustainable
 

Our current food system:
 

  • accounts for up to 30% of total greenhouse emissions

  • has caused 80% of global deforestation

  • is responsible for 60% of the loss of our global biodiversity

  • uses 70% of the world’s available freshwater

  • 50% of the world’s habitable land.


Meat and dairy production alone

  • accounts for more than half of food-related green-house gas emissions

  • takes up nearly 80% of global agricultural land but provides less than 20% of our food calories.


The good news - if we make changes to what we buy, use
and eat it will help reduce carbon emissions, protect nature,
be better for our health and also save us money.
 

more ways to make a difference locally

Take a look at our projects page.

Find out ways in which you can get involved with Wild Colerne.

Learn more about biodiversity, and its relationship with climate change and pollution .