Can you help Marlow build a Nature Corridor?
The ‘Much Wilder Marlow’ campaign by Wild Marlow encourages people to work with their families, friends and neighbours to turn their gardens and outside areas into wildlife-friendly environments. Suggested activities include litter-picking, pledges to create natural wild areas, sharing progress on social media, planting for pollinators, nature connection and much more.
Nature corridors are pieces of land that connect larger nature habitats with each other, helping wildlife to thrive in man-made environments. Without them, wildlife cannot move around the countryside. Here in Marlow we can use our gardens, balconies, doorsteps, driveways, businesses, schools and green spaces to make different choices and increase the health of all species, including ourselves.
Sandygate with its WILD WORLD and NATURE CORRIDOR, are doing a fabulous job and those areas are now so much richer and teeming with life!
The aim is for Marlow to provide the biggest local nature corridor, and we need your help You don’t need to have a garden to get involved. You can make changes on a balcony or windowsill or use your voice to influence others. Why not help a friend in their garden or place of work thinking about how they may contribute. On the Wild Marlow website, https://wildmarlow.org.uk/wilder_marlow.php, there are some quick, easy and cheap ideas for all the family as well as some more ambitious projects for those with a little more time.
We’re developing a ‘Much Wilder Marlow’ map of all the wildlife support activities going on in the area, and are hoping people will contribute their projects to create the overall picture.
So how can we at Sandygate help?
Wild Marlow are asking families to PLEDGE to do something, your pledge takes only a couple of minutes and will show the community that you have or intend to take action, you can do this at https://forms.gle/MtnF63K3ohckcCJd9, don't forget to register our school name with your pledge, as we will get a big shout out and some bug hotel units and bird boxes made by Wild Marlow if we get the most pledges!