To celebrate the launch of Giving Nature a Home in Cardiff we’ll be re-wilding wellies across the city - inspiring and encouraging communities to plant-out record numbers of old wellies for wildlife. We’ll be creating a riot of colour for wildlife in our Giving Nature a Home garden at the RHS Show Cardiff and inviting children and families to take part in our Big Garden Bioblitz and help us build a Giant Bug Hotel for a school or community group to win.
We’d really love you to join in the fun, so please save the date; these events will run from 11 - 19 April.
We’ll be sharing more details shortly to help you choose which part of our city-wide celebration you’d like to be involved in - from a chance to go wild and get your hands dirty, learn more about Giving Nature a Home in Cardiff or enjoy refreshments and a wildlife garden safari at the RHS Show .. watch this space!
Giving Nature a Home in Cardiff
Funded by Tesco customers through the Welsh Government’s carrier bag levy, Giving Nature a Home in Cardiff is RSPB Cyrmu’s flagship project, delivered in partnership with the City of Cardiff Council.
The project aims to encourage thousands of young people and their families across Cardiff to spend more time, more regularly outdoors enjoying and encouraging wildlife in their gardens, school grounds, local parks and green spaces.
The ground-breaking State of Nature Report (2013), produced by the RSPB and 25 wildlife organisations revealed that nature is in danger; 60% of previously common UK species, from bumbles bees to butterflies, have declined in the last 50 years and children are becoming increasingly disconnected from nature.
The RSPB’s mission to create a world richer in nature is particularly poignant in Wales where only 1 in 8 children have a meaningful connection with nature.
Through free outreach sessions for all primary schools across Cardiff and a city-wide programme of free events and activities for families, Giving Nature a Home in Cardiff aims to put frogs, autumn leaves and muddy knees back in to childhood and help inspire children to look after their city’s amazing wildlife.
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