Conservation Gifts to keep the planet green!

 
 

Wildlife conservation gifts

The great thing about giving wildlife conservation gifts is that both people and animals benefit.  These really are win-win gifts, and perfect for people who have everything or for nature lovers who want to make a difference & cares about animals.  The animals win, you spend your money on something worthwhile - and the recipient knows they have a meaningful gift to help wildlife. 

Wildlife conservation is not about saving animals individually, but about saving their habitat - the areas and homes in which they live - and creating conditions in which they can safely thrive.   The other thing to say is that you don't need to spend a great deal to make a difference to wildlife :-) 

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Support an appeal with a Wildlife Trust
Many of the 46 Wildlife Trusts around the UK have appeals to help wildlife and to support their conservation efforts, so you could support one of these  with a donation.  You can choose an appeal by geographic area, Wildlife Trust, or "tag" e.g. beaver, in memory, emergency, land purchase, marine.  See all the appeals here.

The RSPB has a huge appeal on the East Coast of England
The RSPB has an appeal to safeguard vital wetlands and protect a really important coastline for 17 million birds.  Working with other conservation and other partners, the RSPB has managed to get the whole coastline short-listed as a possible UNESCO World Heritage Site.  Find out why this is so important here - there's a brief video you can watch - and you can donate here.  

Adopt a flower, lichen or fungus from Plantlife
£20.00
Adopt a flower such as a cowslip, greater butterfly orchid, a harebell, a juniper, mistletoe, meadow clary, northern marsh orchid, a Spanish catchfly, a yellow whitlowgrass (pictured left), a fungus or lichen.  Find out more from Plantlife

Buy an Acre with the World Land Trust
The greatest threat facing wildlife around the world today is habitat loss.   Mining, agriculture and logging are destroying the homes of wildlife - who are consequently at far greater risk of extinction.   Take action with the World Land Trust, who are working to save our wild world acre by acre.  The Trust is based in Cambridgeshire but works with conservation partners around the world to protect the world’s most biologically significant and threatened habitats.  You can buy an acre and help protect wildlife, and you can do this as a gift.  (You don't own the acre yourself, like many buy an acre/sponsor an acre schemes.)   Your gift can be a part of the solution!  Find out all about it here.

Sponsor an Acre with the Orangutan Foundation
Sponsor vital forest haibtat to help orangutans and many other species with the Orangutan Foundation.  It actively protects over half a million acres of tropical forest which is home to 5,000 critically endangered orangutans, with manned guard posts and forest patrols. Find out more here.  Image ©Orangutan Foundation

From the RSPB Online Shop 
Give them a home, and they will come, as the RSPB advert says.  The RSPB Shop has everything the wildlife in your garden need from bird baths and bird nest boxes to bird food and feeders, and products for wildlife too. Fly away to the RSPB Shop now to see the gifts and goodies they have.


Dedicate a Tree Gift Certificate
Plant a tree and give a gift which will just keep growing!  A native tree will be planted by Trees for Life in the Scottish Highlands - and that will help create a home for wildlife and create forests for the future.  The recipient receives a colourful certificate personalied with your own message either in the post or by email.  Each certificate includes one tree - you can add more trees for £6 each.  From £17.99.  Visit Trees for Life's website

Gift ideas for the wildlife in your garden
There's plenty of gift ideas you can give to encourage wildlife into your garden such a hedgehog House or a bird bath, a bird feeder, a squirrel feeder, hedgehog food, or a place for bees, bugs and butterflies.  Natural Collection have something to encourage the bees in your garden - it's called For the Love of Bees Gift Pack (pictured left).  For £32.00, this gift pack includes The Bee Barn (17.5 × 11 × 21 cm), Natural Nesting Hay,  a pack of nectar rich Wildflower Seeds and the latest Conservation Guide on Bees, all packed in a recyclable gift box!  There are also For the Love of gift packs for birds, butterflies, hedgehogs, and the environment.   Take a look at Natural Collection's ideas for garden wildlife.

How about a home for wildlife? Take a look at Garden Wildlife Direct!

Garden Wildlife Direct not only have everything you need for your feathered friends and wildlife too (such as this Wildlife World Solitary Bee House, pictured left), but they also have amazing offers and prices!  They have bird foods and accessories, wildlife homes and food, window sticker alerts to stop the birds flying into windows, nest boxes, bird baths which can be very decorative for the garden - everything you need to look after the birds and wildlife in your garden!  They will love you for it!   Visit Garden Wildlife Direct here.

Find a virtual gift to help animals around the world
Our sister website Animals Charities has a number of virtual gift ideas you can give to help animals around the world, mainly wildlife such as bears, big cats, squirrels, frogs, swans, deer, snakes, insects and a whole lot more!  Canter off for some ideas...