The British Wildlife Centre: Offer a peaceful, relaxing environment where you can see over forty species of British mammals, birds and reptiles in natural settings. Many of these animals are rarely seen in the wild. Here you can observe them up close, learn more about the challenges they face in the wild and how we can all help to preserve them and their habitats for future generations to enjoy.

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The Tamar Otter Sanctuary: is the only place in the West Country breeding the British Otter regularly an re-introducing young otters into the wild to save the otter from extinction in lowland Britain. To date over 100 otters have been released. Walk in the wood to see Fallow and Muntjac Deer roaming free. Wander around the Waterfowl lakes while Peacocks and Golden Pheasants strut nearby and Wallabies wait to greet you. Watch the Otters playing in large natural enclosures and see them insde their breeding holts or pens. .

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This spring, People's Trust for Endangered Species is launching a new project to help monitor our largest terrestrial and most charismatic beetle, the stag beetle, up and down the country. The Bury Buckets 4 Beetles project, or BB4B, is a great way for everyone to get involved in conservation at a local level and do something practical to help.

How to take part
Taking part is fun and easy to do! All you need is a garden, allotment or any other small green space, a plastic bucket, a little time and lots of patience. By making holes in your bucket, filling it with deadwood and soil and, finally, burying it in your chosen spot, you can create an artificial breeding site for stag beetles where their larvae can develop. Once your bucket is in place, stag beetles (and a whole host of other insects) may use it to lay their eggs in. In the space of the next three or four years these eggs will develop in to fully-grown adult stag beetles. We plan to ask you to dig up your bucket in the spring of 2007 and carefully check for stag beetle larvae (developing beetles), and to let us know what you find. This will tell us exactly where stag beetles are now living and breeding. Repeating the checks annually will alert us to both changes in their numbers and the areas where they are found. If you are interested in taking part, visit People's Trust for Endangered Species .

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View images as the Frogs Spawn hatches. Once hatched their will be released into the wild either to the pond they came from or in the wild part of the garden. Never release into wild ponds it your spawn came from a garden pond to prevent the spread of viral disease.
To read online go and visit Raising Tadpoles. Buy the instruction folder from FSC Guide to Keeping Common Frog Tadpoles A simple illustrated guide which shows how easy it is to rear tadpoles successfully at home or at school, with all the stages of development described and illustrated.

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Planting for birds: A bird-friendly garden doesn't have to be wild or overgrown, but can look attractive all year round. Growing a wide variety of plants to attract wildlife will provide you with something to look at and offer birds food and shelter to help them survive the winter and feed hungry fledgings in the spring. Feeding birds in the garden is a popular activity - over a half of adults in the UK feed birds in their garden. People enjoy seeing wild birds at close quarters and it is an easy way to start teaching children about wildlife.

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Neat and tidy gardens can be environmentally unfriendly places. Some of us treat them like an extension of the inside of our home - the flowers in sterile beds are like ornaments on dusted shelves, while the manicured lawn represents the neat vacuumed carpet. Regimented arrangements of one colour coordinated plants won't attract a natural mix of insect species. To top it all, fads and fashions of slabs, shingle and decking are bleak un-approachable terrains for garden visitors.

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