Tayside Biodiversity - Get Involved - DO A LITTLE - CHANGE A LOT! Every Action Counts
AT HOME AND IN THE GARDEN
Biodiversity Bullet Use less chemicals in the house and garden to avoid polluting the environment and harming insects.
Biodiversity Bullet Use more recycled and environmentally-friendly products in the home and garden to help protect the aquatic environment.
Biodiversity Bullet Make your own compost using waste from your kitchen and garden – it is free and you will help save natural resources.
Biodiversity Bullet Use peat-free compost – both in the garden and for house plants – help save rare bog habitats.
Biodiversity Bullet Plant a tree – either a native species such as rowan or bird cherry, or an old Scottish variety of fruit tree.
Biodiversity Bullet Create a wildlife corner in your garden: it can look good, adds interest, benefits butterflies and moths and helps control garden pests.
Biodiversity Bullet Plant an ‘edible hedge’ to feed the birds in the winter – use berry-bearing native species.
Biodiversity Bullet Restore or build a garden pond but don’t forget to make sloping sides to safeguard wildlife.
Biodiversity Bullet Build a simple habitat pile of logs and branches to encourage hedgehogs, toads and a variety of insects.
Biodiversity Bullet Create a ‘housing estate’ for wildlife! Put up a bird or bat box either on a garden tree or on the outside of the house or garage.
Biodiversity Bullet Plant shrubs such as hebe, lavender, honeysuckle and buddleia, and flowers (candytuft, nasturtium, aubrietia and flowering herbs) to attract butterflies, birds and bats – and encourage your workplace or school to do the same.
Biodiversity Bullet Create a wildflower meadow (use Scottish-grown seeds) either in the corner of your garden or encourage your local authority to plant one, perhaps along a roadside verge or in the local park.
AT WORK OR SCHOOL
Biodiversity Bullet Plant up a butterfly-friendly window box for use at home, work or school.
Biodiversity Bullet Help your local school, hospital or sheltered housing complex create a wildlife area in their grounds.
Biodiversity Bullet Plan an attractive outside recreation area for work lunch breaks or as an alternative summertime waiting room at your health centre. By planting shrubs and flowers attractive to butterflies, birds and bats, you will benefit wildlife at the same time as your health.
Biodiversity Bullet Become a House Martin ‘landlord’ – encourage summer visitors such as swift, swallow or house martin to nest on the building by providing a suitable nestbox.
Biodiversity Bullet Check that the potted indoor plants at work or school are in peat-free compost.
IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
Biodiversity Bullet Encourage your local golf club to take part in the Scottish Golf Course Wildlife Initiative.
Biodiversity Bullet Suggest a community orchard or wildflower meadow be created for all ages to enjoy.
Biodiversity Bullet Repair or build a drystane dyke to provide shelter for animals and plants such as wall rue, lichens or mosses.
Biodiversity Bullet Offer to put up a nestbox for birds and bats for an elderly neighbour, or donate one to your local shop, workplace, doctor’s surgery or community centre.
Biodiversity Bullet Ask you local Community Council or Residents’ Association to adopt an area for wildlife.
Biodiversity Bullet Assist in the new Local Patch Project by surveying the wildlife on your doorstep.
Biodiversity Bullet Offer your help to one of the Tayside Biodiversity Partnership’s sub-groups.
Biodiversity Bullet Help implement the actions in any of the Habitat or Species Action Plans – there’s plenty to choose from and everyone can help.
AT LEISURE
Biodiversity Bullet Join and help a conservation group – see new places, learn about your environment and keep fit at the same time.
Biodiversity Bullet Don’t buy souvenirs that encourage exploitation of the natural world – either here or abroad
Biodiversity Bullet Support ‘green tourism’ initiatives on holiday and participate in any green schemes run by hotels and guesthouses.
Biodiversity Bullet Find out about your destination before you travel – it may be an environmentally-sensitive area or you may be able to contribute to a local biodiversity project to enhance it.
Biodiversity Bullet When on holiday let the local people know how much you appreciate their natural environment so that they see its economic value.
Biodiversity Bullet Remember that air travel uses large amounts of fossil fuels and creates greenhouse gases. Find out about organisations such as Climate Care and support the development of renewable and clean energy projects to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Check out www.climatecare.org
Biodiversity Bullet Take all rubbish home from the beach – it can endanger wildlife if left behind.
Biodiversity Bullet Boats and jet skis create noise and chemical pollution which disturbs wildlife – don’t leave the engine running unnecessarily.
Biodiversity Bullet If you are sailing, surfing or windsurfing, keep a distance of at least 100m from seal resting or bird nesting sites to avoid disturbing them and only view dolphins and whales in their natural environment with a responsible boat operator.
GETTING INVOLVED

Getting involved in the biodiversity process is often just a telephone call or letter away.

Contact any of the local environmental organisations listed in the References section,
return the Registration of Interest form in the LBAP, or ask for further information from:

The Tayside Biodiversity Co-ordinator
Tayside Biodiversity Partnership
c/o Environment Services, Perth and Kinross Council
Pullar House, 35 Kinnoull Street, Perth. PH1 5GD
Tel. 01738 476481 Fax 01738 476410
e-mail: tayside.biodiversity@ukf.net
“Be the change you want to see in the world”
Ghandi
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