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 the 25th December to the 5th 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.

Take part in 12 Days Wild

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

A top down view of magazines and guides on a wood background, with wildlife and people images on the front
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