What can you tell us about what you have done and/or what you can pledge to help build a bigger nature corridor in Marlow.

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Mapping what our private urban nature corridor is like now and how it could grow is essential for us to understand how well we are supporting local wildlife and biodiversity in Marlow. If you have any of the features or practices below or can pledge to do them, please tick the relevant checkboxes. You can find tips on how to do all of the below at www.wildmarlow.org.uk/wilder_marlow.php and the map here https://bit.ly/3dQN2li.

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WATER PLEDGE

Add/have a pond.

Collect rainwater and/or use my hose less.

Mulch my garden to reduce water usage.

Add/have a simple birdbath

HABITAT PLEDGE

Add/have a brush pile.

Add/have a log pile.

Add/have a stone pile.

Leave my lawn or a dedicated long grass areas.

Add/have a bird box ( away from nesting boxes)

Add/have a bat box.

Add/have a hedgehog house.

Grow hedging or plant a tree

Climbing plants

NATURE CONNECTION

For yourself spend at least two hours a week outdoors. Use your senses to take note of the surroundings.

Find one natural thing per day to be grateful about. EG, birds in the hedge as I walked to the shops

When passing a tree, appreciate it's gifts.

Sit outdoors, close your eyes and filter the nature sounds from all other sounds.

Consciously listen, watch, touch and smell dusk or dawn once or twice a month.

Stop and observe the wildflowers that grow through concrete, for they are amazing.

Walk with bare feet on earth whenever you can.

Stop worrying about the garden and know that nature knows best. Leave her to it.

SUSTAINABLE GARDEN MANAGEMENT

Cut my hedges on a 3 year cycle (top, side, otherside) ensuring food and cover yearly.

Leave some nettles and/or long grass.

Refrain from using chemical weed killers, pesticides or toxic slug pellets.

Start/have a compost / wormery or leaf mulch.

Give the mower some time off. Join No Mow May.

Install/have a water butt.

Mulch to retain water and improve soil.

Use peat free compost.

FOOD FOR WILDLIFE AND YOU

Add/have bird feeder/s

Plant for bird food.

Plant for pollinators.

Plant something for you to eat.

Make/have a Hedgehog feeding station.

INFLUENCING MY STREET

Spreading the word is an important. Pledge to contact your neighbour and put your street on the map as acting for nature! For advice and an example message go to https://www.wildmarlow.org.uk/wilder_marlow.php

I will contact my neighbours and talk to them about Much Wilder Marlow.

Litter pick with Plastic Busters and The Marlow Wombles

Join a growing network of global litter pickers determined to help wildlife by clearing up our rubbish. https://www.plasticbusters.org/adopt-a-place or join The Marlow Wombles at https://www.facebook.com/groups/353353685395351

Adopt a street with Plastic Busters.

Follow and join The Marlow Wombles.

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