News from the RSPB site

The RSPB South East is proud to announce that of the 25,000 gardeners now signed up to its Homes For Wildlife project, a fifth of participants come from this region.

Results released today (Friday 28 November) show participants are carrying out an average of 12 tasks each to help frogs, toads, bats, insects, hedgehogs and birds.

This includes more than 1000 people in Kent, the county with the fifth highest participation rate in the UK.
Taking action

Providing seed mixes, growing flowering nectar-rich plants and planting dense thorny bushes are some of the most popular actions people have taken as part of the RSPB’s Homes for Wildlife project.

Homes for Wildlife offers free, tailored wildlife-gardening advice to help people transform their homes and gardens into mini nature reserves. Across the UK, people carried out more than 300,000 tasks to help wildlife in year one, and the RSPB is delighted with the positive response.

The RSPB’s Richard Bashford, said: 'Kent’s wildlife is increasingly reliant on our gardens for food, water and shelter so it’s fantastic that people are so committed to making their homes and gardens wildlife friendly.

'Through Homes for Wildlife, we’re trying to reverse the alarming declines of familiar birds such as house sparrows, starlings and song thrushes. Large numbers of these birds make their homes in our gardens. The time committed by Kent residents in taking actions will help create a better future for them and other wildlife in the not too distant future.'

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