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Coming soon – our easy-to-use app that will help you to connect with wildlife.

It enables you to collaborate with others in your neighbourhood to support wildlife. It helps you work together, whether you’re putting up a bird feeder or improving habitat across a housing estate or the grounds of a school.

Through the app, you can also share the joy of seeing the difference you’ve made together.

Our app gives a unique, local perspective, informed by what others are doing to help wildlife around their homes and workplaces.

We’re currently beta testing the app. When it’s ready, you’ll be able to download it in the App Store, on Google Play, or wherever you get your apps.

Why

Natural Neighbours wants everyone to be able to experience nature in their daily lives at home, work, school and play...

How

If every garden in a street had a home for a hedgehog, but none of them provided the wood piles, water and wild patch...

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Why?

Natural Neighbours wants everyone to be able to experience nature in their daily lives at home, work, school and play. Research shows that connection with nature improves our health and increases public support for wildlife and the environment.

Like us, animals need to move about to thrive. They need safe pathways to meet mates, find food and water, and hide away from predators or the elements. If they can’t move around to feed and breed, then they die out.

Families of hedgehogs need to meet other families of hedgehogs, and frogs from one pond need to meet frogs from another. With plants flowering and fruiting at different times, birds and bees need to be able to find different food sources near their nests to survive and raise offspring.

In natural environments they can move freely to do this and there is usually food and water nearby but in urban areas suitable habitat is often isolated, disconnected and hard to find.

We have developed our app to help people work together across neighbourhoods to provide those essential habitat pathways. Connecting and coordinating our greening activities is a classic example of where the ‘whole is greater than the sum of the parts’.

The app helps connect greening activities from across the neighbourhood and tells people the different things they can do in their outdoor spaces to help much-loved wildlife such as hedgehogs, frogs, bumblebees and song thrushes.

How?

If every garden in a street had a home for a hedgehog, but none of them provided the wood piles, water and wild patches that they need to feed, drink and shelter, hedgehogs wouldn’t prosper there.

Similarly, if every balcony had plants that bloom to encourage bees and butterflies in summer, but there was nothing for them in spring, autumn or winter, then it’s unlikely these insects would survive.

The app is a way of recording the wildlife habitat that is present or absent in the area. It also enables people to share information about what they are doing to encourage nature to thrive.