This June, Cornwall Wildlife Trust is asking everyone do something wild every day for a month.
The challenge set from The Wildlife Trusts nationally is simple and designed to delight: make room for nature - no matter where you are or how busy your life. Make this the month when you do something wild every day with the UK’s first ever month-long nature challenge.
30 Days Wild builds on the Trust’s successful My Wild Life campaign which with the support of artist Kurt Jackson, wild food expert Thom Hunt, Olympians Helen Glover and Annie Vernon among others has been raising awareness that getting outside and connecting with wildlife is simply good for all of us.
Everyone who signs up to The Wildlife Trusts’ 30 Days Wild will receive a pack full of encouragement, ideas and random acts of wildness. They will also receive a fun wall chart to track progress, a wild badge, and regular blasts of inspiration throughout June straight to their inbox to help everyone make nature part of their lives.
Sign up here for the The 30 Days Wild challenge. Detect, dive, discover, dig; invite, inhale, immerse; shout, scatter and sweep… listed is 101 fun and intriguing ideas to get you started. It’s all about making time for nature in your life - and it’s free.
BBC Countryfile presenter Ellie Harrison is a supporter of The Wildlife Trusts’ month-long challenge. She can’t wait to get started – she said: “This month we want you to do something wild! You could climb to the highest hill, take a wild photo or even follow a bumble bee to see where it takes you. Join us for 30 Days Wild and find your wild life!”
We know that a generation of children are growing up disconnected from nature – only 1 in 10 children ever play in wild places. But this is a problem that affects adults too. It can be difficult to create the right moment or to find time for nature in busy lives. We’re here to inspire people – whatever your age, wherever you live, we want everyone to feel they can take part.
The Wildlife Trust is asking people to invent their own Random Acts of Wildness or use their list for inspiration – these acts are everyday ways to connect with nature or help wildlife. This could be as simple as:
- Inhale: take a few seconds out to smell a wildflower
- Dive: have a bracing wild swim on one of our beautiful beaches
- Encounter: share a close encounter with a favourite species – take a friend along to a Cornwall Wildlife Trust event or visit one of their nature reserves.
- Create: make a wild work of art outdoors and leave it for others to enjoy
Share progress and ideas using #30DaysWild or join the Cornwall Wildlife Trust Facebook group. People who sign up can also take a wildness quiz which has been developed with the University of Derby to measure people’s connection to nature, happiness and their pro-nature behaviour before and after the month.
