Welcome to the pledge page for the Calne Community Nature Reserve.
We are a gardening for wildlife project based on the idea created by Dr. Adrian Cooper and his partners for Felixstowe.
Community Nature Reserves are based upon the idea that we can create a mosaic of wildlife-friendly places where we live and garden. The baseline measurement for success is a single football pitch.
Whether it be a garden, allotment, pond, window box, or bug hotel, all of these areas can be visited by insects, bats and birds (and with appropriate adaptions, small mammals like hedgehogs too).
As Calne becomes evermore developed with housing and industry, these gaps between the buildings become so much more important.
The reality is that many of us will already have wildlife-friendly areas, for others gardening for wildlife will be an exciting new project that we can also get our kids involved with.
Based on three square metres (for example, a strip of 1m by 3m), we would need 2,133 people involved to create a community nature reserve of 6,400 square metres. This is equal to a single adult-size football pitch.
Help us create a community nature reserve by filling out the pledge form below.
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