Wildlife Friendly Schools Project
The Wildlife Friendly Schools Project is a project funded by WWF and Air Wick. Our aim is to connect children and young people with nature while bringing valuable habitats into school grounds.
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We are currently in the second year of this project, and this year we are working with 13 schools in Leicestershire to create valuable habitat for wildlife.
During the 2022 - 2023 academic year we worked with 6 schools in Leicester and we implemented bat boxes, nest boxes and hedgehog houses. We also planted trees, shrubs and wildlife patches in their school grounds.
During the 2023 - 2024 academic year we expanded on last years aims to create valuable habitat for wildlife. We did this by creating and maintaining ponds, creating hedgerows, installing nest boxes and more. This will support our key species which are hedgehogs, swifts, redstarts, reptiles, and amphibians. These species were chosen based on Leicester City Councils Biodiversity Action Plan, please see attached for more information on this plan.
Three of the schools were chosen as 'hedgehog champion' schools. With these schools we ran education sessions on how to protect hedgehogs. We also provided schools with hedgehog nest boxes, identified hedgehog highways, litter picked, planted flowering plants to attract invertebrates and carried out awareness activities.
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