Acting to favour biodiversity
Resources to discover the species living in your school:
Garden Birds
The Muséum scientists need your help to know more about the birds that frequent your school’s green spaces.
Spipoll
This observatory aims to obtain data on pollinating insects to monitor their health status.
Wild on my street
Wild on my street is a ludic, yet useful programme that allows researchers to learn more about plant distribution in the city.
Operation Snails
Being part of this observatory, you will help scientists to better understand the importance of green spaces and their management in the conservation of snails and slugs in the city.
Download here our participation booklet
Test yourself with our quizzes
Worm Plot
In pedestrian areas, the number of earthworms can drop by 50 to 80%! Such a decrease often has negative consequences that we’d like to study.
Observing nature is good, acting to protect it is even better!
Preserving an unmanaged space
Allowing plants to grow in certain areas of your school (known as wasteland) can be a simple way to encourage plant and animal biodiversity!
Making a hedgehog shelter
Although hedgehogs are woodland dwellers, they are increasingly venturing into the vicinity of cities, attracted by gardens and the prey they provide. Making a hedgehog house is an excellent way to provide shelter.
Creating dry stone walls
With the growth of urbanisation, low stone walls are disappearing from our landscapes. However, they are a place that is highly appreciated by biodiversity, which finds refuge in their interstices.
Limiting light pollution
Reducing or eliminating light pollution could reduce the disturbance of biodiversity during their nocturnal activities and encourage the return of light-avoiding species.
Planting a flower meadow
Meadows are a source of food and a breeding ground for pollinating insects. They therefore help them to develop. They also have an aesthetic value and will make your establishment more pleasant to live in and contemplate.
Connecting the school's green spaces with the outside world
In the city, natural habitats are highly fragmented, making the movement of animal and plant populations complex. Creating holes in the fences will allow animal species to circulate, and thus feed and reproduce.
Making and installing insect hotels
Pollination is very important, but pollinating insects are threatened by the destruction of their habitat. With an insect hotel you can provide these little creatures with a favourable environment for their reproduction.
Building and installing a birdhouse
A nesting box provides a habitat for birds in an area where they would not easily find one.
Multiplying habitats to increase biodiversity
Creating biodiversity refuges in public as well as private spaces allows wildlife to circulate within a larger scale mosaic of connected environments, taking a stopover.
Making compost
Composting transforms organic matter into nutrient-rich humus in a few weeks. Micros and macros-organisms take turns transforming our waste into a real natural fertilizer. And the more diverse the waste, the more nutritious your fertiliser will be!
Building and installing a feeder
A feeder ensures a regular supply of food for the birds during the winter.
Do you want to promote a particular biological group or choose the most effective actions?
The table on this page will help you make a choice.
