Get involved

If you are keen to get outdoors and do your bit for biodiversity, there are many wildlife surveys and nature experiments that you can take part in across the UK. Here is a selection.

Brimstone © Jim Asher/Butterfly Conservation

Big Butterfly Count

Help to take nature’s pulse by joining the biggest ever nationwide survey to assess the health of our environment from 16–31 July 2011.

Bugs Count

See how many different types of bug you can spot in three 15 minute challenges.

Cherry tree survey

Join the second year running of the national survey to locate, identify and count the cherry trees in streets, parks and gardens across the UK.

Urban tree survey

Identify and record the trees in your garden, street and park for the Natural History Museum’s urban tree survey.

Save the rainforests

Support Jungle Fever, a new campaign to save rainforests by Cool it Schools.

Biodiversity begins with a...

A comic look at the importance of bees to our natural environment.

Speak up for Species

Join ARKive's Facebook campaign to support threatened plants and animals.

Bluebell survey

Are bluebells in Britain flowering earlier than they used to? Is this evidence of climate change?

Dishcombe Wood, Devon was planted to mark the Silver Jubilee © WTPL

A tree tribute

Six million trees are to be planted over the next year forming hundreds of Jubilee and Diamond Woods all over the UK to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012.

Your say on natural heritage funding

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is asking for your views on how to allocate future grants for projects supporting the natural environment and biodiversity. The deadline for the consultation is 26 April.

Mapping London's elms

The Conservation Foundation is asking people to look out for elm trees in the capital. The project, called Ulmus Londinium, will map London’s surviving elm population, plant new elms and promote an awareness of elms in our capital’s heritage.

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