Opportunity Details

Your Naturespace is where you take action for wildlife - this could be a garden, patio, balcony, allotment, communal green space or even a window box! These areas can provide plenty of food and shelter for animals, and act as safe stepping stones between larger wildlife reserves.

- Send us information about your Naturespace to contribute to our wildlife-saving science: https://naturehood.uk/naturehood-actions/me-my-naturespace

- Use our step-by-step guides to add wildlife-friendly features to your Naturespace:
https://naturehood.uk/naturehood-actions

- Tell us what actions you have taken in your Naturespace by completing short surveys:
https://naturehood.uk/survey-your-space

When you send us updates, you become part of a UK-wide wildlife monitoring and conservation project, which will improve understanding of the most effective ways to have a tangible positive impact on wildlife across the UK.

We’re researching how our evidence-based actions work together, and how many times an action needs to be taken (and in what area) to have the most impact on wildlife populations. By understanding this, our communities can come together to make an even bigger difference.

Opportunity Details

Join us as we work to restore areas on the 485 acres of redwoods/tan oak/madrone we steward to better health, through clearing brush, identifying and removing invasives on grasslands that are essential for native species, nurturing the coastal redwood trees on the land, and keeping waterways clear, and through the use of controlled burning. A typical day will run from 9am to 5pm with breaks and lunch. After a briefing explaining the the land and its history and current situation, and basic tool/safety protocols, volunteers join a crew targeting a specific area for clearing or burning. Most projects are on hilly slopes in often overgrown areas, and possibly down around creeks, so you should be able to safely negotiate such terrain unaided. Your involvement helps repair the physical damage caused by logging, fire suppression and non-native species invasion. Also, this work provides another opportunity to learn and acknowledge the violence done to Native American land, people and culture, and in re-employing Indigenous approaches to land management, we can take small but positive steps to counter past wrongs.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

They pollinate plants, feed the food chain and make us smile – what’s not to love? But butterflies and moths need our help! Join the experts from Butterfly Conservation and the Royal Horticultural Society for an evening all about our lovely lepidopterans*. They’ll be answering your questions, giving their top tips and giving us some amazing insights into the world of butterflies and moths – even the delicate relationship between gardeners and caterpillars.
*butterflies and moths!

If you've got questions you'd like our experts to answer, email them to naturehood@earthwatch.org.uk and tune in to hear the answer.

Panellists

Dr Hayley Jones, Entomologist at the Royal Horticultural Society
An official invertebrate expert with a PhD all about moths. She also researches ways to control slugs and snails!

Dr Helen Bostock, Senior Horticultural Advisor at the Royal Horticultural Society
An expert in how the plants we grow affect garden invertebrates, Helen helps gardeners make the right choices for pollinators in their space.

Dr Phil Sterling, Butterfly Conservation
An urban green space pioneer, invertebrate expert and Project Manager of Butterfly Conservation’s ‘Building Sites for Butterflies’ programme.

Register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4816122802109/WN_qTDRzW5sROyIqvcaN-3X5A?fbclid=IwAR0LnB_79MW2PYy_GadHsxmKHM2NJy5o1fFIJVLM86gVzCRNZ77yHT0tbzM

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Participate in an interactive webinar about how you can contribute to community research on tree health.

What you’ll do
A variety of species have made a home for themselves in the trees of Toronto. These city trees provide shelter and shade, capture carbon, slow floods, and more.

This nonprofit invites companies and their employees to learn about the urban forest by participating in citizen science through virtual tools such as iNaturalist, TreeBee, and Caterpillars Count.

For this experience, you will gather with your team for a webinar that will teach you how to collect and share simple data from local trees. This information will be placed in a database used to assess tree health in the Toronto area. Citizen science projects like this one augment educational research tools for those interested in learning about and helping sustain the city's trees.

The webinar will proceed as follows:
-> Welcome and Introduction to Organization (5-10 minutes)
-> Organization’s Mission and Program Overview (15-20 minutes)
-> Ice Breaker and Introduction to Participant Activity (15-20 minutes)
-> Closing Remarks and Questions (5-10 minutes)

What else you should know
Volunteers can download the following apps in advance. They are available for both iOS and Android devices:
-> iNaturalist
-> Seek

For more information on pricing, group size and how to register please visit www.ecospark.ca/corporate-volunteering or email us at info@ecospark.ca.

Opportunity Details

Discover and take part in citizen science, while supporting programs for young people to sustain their local greenspaces.

What you’ll do
The variety of species in public parks is fundamental the health of its ecosystem. Invasive species and other threats to biodiversity are a major concern, but you and your team can help sustain these green spaces by participating in citizen science.

For this experience you will learn about citizen science resources available online. You will learn about tools like iNaturalist, Seek, and EDDMapS -- and how to use them to share essential environmental knowledge to open-source databases, and to get information that can help you revitalize parks in your local area.

The experience will proceed as follows:
-> Welcome and Introduction to Organization (5-10 minutes)
-> Mission and Program Overview (15-20 minutes)
-> Ice Breaker and Introduction to Participant Activity (15-20 minutes)
-> Closing Remarks and Questions (5-10 minutes)

What else you should know
Volunteers can download the following apps in advance. They are available for both iOS and Android devices:
-> iNaturalist
-> Seek

For more information on group size, pricing and how to register please visit www.ecospark.ca/corporate-volunteering.

Opportunity Details

Did you know that that 58% of all food produced is wasted or lost, meanwhile, 1 in 5 households in British Columbia go hungry? Making matters worse, the emissions from decomposing organic waste in Canadian landfills currently account for 20% of national methane emissions.

Vancouver Food Runners is seeking volunteer food drivers (Food Rescue Heroes!) to join our network of passionate volunteer drivers. You will pick up excess perishable food from a community donor (bakery, green grocer or restaurant) and distribute it to those who need it most. We have partnered with charitable organizations such as the YWCA, local neighbourhood houses, shelters and schools to help put a stop to hunger right in our very own city.

How is Vancouver Food Runners different?

We use an app to coordinate food runs for our volunteers to access. Once a volunteer claims a food rescue, they can find their way to the donor and their final destination with the push of a button. Be a part of the solution by diverting viable food destined for the landfill and, instead, delivering it into the mouths of Vancouver’s most vulnerable and food insecure.

Join us in putting an end to hunger and bringing us closer to Zero Waste in our city. Download our app now to get started:

Apple: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/vancouver-food-runners/id1507395750
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vancouverfoodrunners.app

To learn more about volunteering with VFR, click here: https://youtu.be/TU0Me0Fuq-M?si=0Ajp8JkbVT8soV5K

Opportunity Details

I Love My Park Day—the largest volunteer event in New York—will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2021! Join with other volunteers to spruce up the Nature Center for spring. Projects will include gardening, raking, building care, and shoreline cleanup. Come help out in a COVID-friendly way.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	10	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

I Love My Park Day—the largest volunteer event in New York—will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2021! Join with other volunteers to spruce up the Nature Center for spring. Projects will include gardening, raking, building care, and shoreline cleanup. Come help out in a COVID-friendly way.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	10	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

We are seeking volunteer creative writers who may be interested in writing blog posts for Growing Chefs! Our brank personality is positive, knowledgeable, supportive, playful, joyful, bold. Does that sound like your writing style, and does our mission speak to you? Reach out!

Things that matter to us:
Sustainability. We are committed to championing sustainable food systems and food practices that benefit the health of our shared environment.
Positive Change. We are committed to realizing positive change within the food community, and to educating the greater community on the benefits of healthy, sustainable food systems.
Local Focus. We support and value local food practices, local farmers, and local food production.
Collaboration. We engage chefs, educators, growers, children, community groups, and families to work together to support food sustainability.
Better Health. We encourage healthier eating and healthier food practices.
Respect, participatory democracy, and inclusion. We are committed to treating everyone with integrity, fairness, and honesty. We acknowledge the uniqueness of each individual, their skills, beliefs, opinions, and voice.
Trust. We aim to ensure honesty, transparency, responsibility, and accountability in all our work and are committed to building an organizational culture based on these values.

Target Audiences:
Volunteers (current & potential) – which may include Chefs, the Restaurant Community, Nutritionists & Gardeners
Elementary School Teachers, Students & Families
Donors (committed & potential)
Broader Community with Shared Values (around Health, Sustainable/Local Food, the Environment)
For example; Educators, the Restaurant Community, Nutritionists, the Farmers Market Community, Gardeners, older people with a nostalgia for a simpler time

Opportunity Details

Sturgeon City is hosting a family friendly event Saturday April 24th to help celebrate the planet. There will be several hands-on science themed activities for the family as well as craft vendors, area organization, food trucks, live animals, and more.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Parking	5	n/a	n/a
Event Setup etc.	15	n/a	n/a
Education Station Assistance	15	n/a	n/a