- Amphibian surveying booklet: tips, techniques and skills to help you survey for amphibians.
- Reptile surveying booklet: tips, techniques and skills to help you survey for reptiles.
- Just Add Water: our handy guide to creating and looking after a wildlife pond in your garden or school.
- My Wild Life Guide: all the people we interviewed through My Wild Life had great stories about fun things to do outside. Learn more about pond dipping, bird watching, bug spotting and looking for amphibians and reptiles, and be inspired to have a go with this colourful booklet.
- Urban Tails: you’d be amazed at the wildlife you can find in our towns and cities. Gardens, allotments and parks provide frogs, toads, newts, snakes and lizards with places to live. Find out what you can see and how you can help in this handy guide.
Creating habitats
- Bog garden
- Hibernaculum
- Reptile refuges
- Log piles
- Compost heaps
- Making a mini-pond: planter style and bucket style
- Making a lined pond
- Variety of vegetation
- Use our Wildlife Pond Visualiser App to plan out what you want your pond to look like
- More gardening tips
Enticing wildlife
Surveying
- Exploring earthworms with a wormery
- Newt’s tea-bug hunt
- Pond dipping instructions
- Pond dipping guide
- Pond dipping recording sheet
- Worm charming
Further info:
- If you are concerned about any of the wildlife using your garden, have a look at the Garden Wildlife Health Project website.
- Froglife are an Associated Organisation of the Gardening Wildlife Forum. You can read the Gardening Wildlife Forum Manifesto here
