Let it go wild 🥳
One way to show both yourself and your local wildlife some kindness is just to kick back and let your garden go a bit wild.
Let the grass grow and give up on weeding - if anyone asks, you're doing it for the animals, duh?
📸: Arnhel de Serra
Get the drinks in 🍻
There's nothing kinder than getting a round in for your local wildlife, and it won't cost you a thing.
Leaving a vessel to collect rainwater in your garden, on your balcony, or on a windowsill goes a long way for thirsty visitors.
📸: James Dobson
Build a house or two 🏘️
A few pieces of wood, a plastic box, or even a bit of old drainpipe can be enough to provide shelter for a hedgehog, frog, or local insects.
So, get creative!
📸: Rob Coleman
Plant shrubs and trees 🌳
They do wonders for your garden, but they're also a fan favourite of wildlife.
Small shrubs are great too if you're short on space.
📸: Hanne Siebers
It's World Kindness Day, and we could all do with a healthy dose, particularly the natural environment.
Here's how you can be kind to your local wildlife 1/6🧵:
Did you catch the latest Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light?
National Trust properties around the country played a starring role, and our local teams deserve huge credit for helping pull it off. You can keep your heads, for now!
Read more here:
Restoring nature and increasing carbon stocks on land is a critical step towards this goal, so we look forward to hearing more from, and working with, the Prime Minister on the Government's plans to restore nature at pace and scale as part of the UK's path to Net Zero.
The National Trust welcomes the Prime Minister's commitment to an 81% emissions reduction by 2035. This target should drive action to address the climate crisis with the ambition and urgency recommended by the Climate Change Committee. #COP29
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Tredegar House commemorates the 170th anniversary of the Charge of the Light Brigade. 📷Paul Harris