12 Days Wild - Wildlife Trusts

Join us for 12 Days Wild

A midwinter nature challenge 

12 Days Wild is our festive nature challenge, encouraging you to do one wild thing a day from 25 December to 5 January each year. In those weird days between Christmas and New Year, winter wildlife is just waiting to be explored! Your wild acts could be little things to help nature - like recycling your Christmas tree or feeding the birds – or ways to connect to the natural world, like walking off your Christmas dinner in the woods or admiring the beauty of stargazing.

frost flower

Meadow buttercup by Guy Edwardes/2020VISION

Have an eco-Christmas

Quick tips for a greener Christmas
winter walk

Zsuzsanna Bird

Go on a winter walk

Where to go
Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) Vixen in the Snow during winter

Danny Green/2020VISION

Try wild winter crafts

Get started

Male Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) in flight in snow, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. February 2009. - Neil Aldridge

Fundraise for nature

Help save wildlife

Milky Way Wingletang St Agnes - Ed Marshall

Go stargazing

Eyes to the skies

Fieldfares (Turdus pilaris) feeding on hawthorn berries in snowy winter hedgerow. Cambridgeshire. December. - Chris Gomersall/2020VISION

Spot winter wildlife

5 festive things to see
Silver birch tree covered in frost, the Wildlife Trusts

© Mark Hamblin/2020VISION

Where to see wildlife in the winter

What will you find?
Deer hoof print in snow

©Amy Lewis

Identify tracks

Look out for tracks