12 Days Wild (2024)

12 Days Wild 2024 - Red deer

A midwinter nature challenge 

12 Days Wild is our festive nature challenge, encouraging you to do one wild thing a day from the 25th December to the 5th January each year. In those quiet days between Christmas and New Year, winter wildlife is just waiting to be explored! Your wild acts could be little things to help nature - like recycling your Christmas tree or feeding the birds – or ways to connect to the natural world, like taking in the calm of stargazing.

Juvenile Common / Eurasian cranes

A small flock of Juvenile Common / Eurasian cranes (Grus grus), released by the Great Crane Project onto the Somerset Levels and Moors, running to take off from frozen, snow covered pastureland on a foggy winter morning. Somerset, UK, December 2010. - Nick Upton/2020VISION/naturepl.com

Where to see wildlife in the winter

What will you find?
Teasel in frost

teasel by Amy Lewis

Have an eco-Christmas

Tips for a greener festive season
Mallard adult female shares a tender moment with a male on a frozen lake

Andrew Parkinson/2020VISION

Fundraise for nature

Help save wildlife
winter walk

Zsuzsanna Bird

Go on a winter walk

Your next adventure awaits
Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) Vixen in the Snow during winter

Danny Green/2020VISION

Spot winter wildlife

5 festive things to see

Milky Way Wingletang St Agnes - Ed Marshall

Go stargazing

Eyes to the skies
wreath

Try wild winter crafts

Get started
Deer hoof print in snow

©Amy Lewis

Identify tracks

Look out for tracks
Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) Vixen in the Snow during winter

Danny Green/2020VISION

Join Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust