title: 30 Days Wild: Development and Evaluation of a Large-Scale Nature Engagement Campaign to Improve Well-Being.
abstract: There is a need to increase people's engagement with and connection to nature, both for human well-being and the conservation of nature itself. In order to suggest ways for people to engage with nature and create a wider social context to normalise nature engagement, The Wildlife Trusts developed a mass engagement campaign, 30 Days Wild. The campaign asked people to engage with nature every day for a month. 12,400 people signed up for 30 Days Wild via an online sign-up with an estimated 18,500 taking part overall, resulting in an estimated 300,000 engagements with nature by participants. Samples of those taking part were found to have sustained increases in happiness, health, connection to nature and pro-nature behaviours. With the improvement in health being predicted by the improvement in happiness, this relationship was mediated by the change in connection to nature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Life Sciences, College of Life and Natural Sciences, University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Miles
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Richardson
authors.affiliation: The Wildlife Trusts, Newark, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cormack
authors.affiliation: The Wildlife Trusts, Newark, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Lucy
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: McRobert
authors.affiliation: Public Interest Research Centre, Machynlleth, Wales, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Ralph
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Underhill
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005260:Female; D006240:Happiness; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019368:Nature; D017008:Negotiating; D013997:Time Factors