Here's a great gift for anyone who loves bears!  Give them the chance to enjoy beautiful pictures of rescued bears during 2024 with a Free the Bears calendar!

Find out more about the Free the Bears 2024 calendar

Free the Bears is a charity in Australia and they have done an amazing job over the years rescuing over 1,000 bears from captive situations and looked after them in their sanctuaries in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

The bears are often in terrible conditions when they are rescued, and many have lived their  lives in tiny cages with little or no food or water.  They were founded by an incredible lady, Dr Mary Hutton, who has just announced her retirement from the charity. 

The 2024 Calendar features 12 of the bears at Free the Bears sanctuaries,
all cared for by Free the Bears

The Free the Bears calendar for 2024 has some amazing photos of the bears that have been rescued - so why not help them out and give one of these calendars as a gift to a bear lover? The wall calendar features 12 bears, all enjoying a safe, healthy, happy life.  They rely on humans, as they've never learnt survival skills and some have disabilities so they will need care all their lives.  

Buy your Free the Bears Calendar here for £11.00 (other currencies are available too!

Images on this post copyright Free the Bears

Don’t miss: Hamza – Strictly Birds of Prey.

Hamza Yassin travels around Britain, taking footage of birds of prey – such as marsh harriers, white-tailed eagles, peregrine falcons

The programme is on BBC1 on Sunday, 24 September at 7pm – nearly a year after Hamza Yassin won Strictly Come Dancing.

Now, he’s back in the natural world, meeting old friends, dedicated conservationists and film-makers, beginning on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula in West Scotland.  Here he films many different birds of prey and eagles, his first love!

And he’s in Ealing to track down the peregrine falcon, the fastest animal on the planet.  These falcons are defending their nest and chasing predators off. 

There are hen harriers in the Caingorms National Park, known for their sky dancing courtship display.  Some landowners in the park are restoring the natural environment to help wildlife.

There are buzzards, too, in the woodland behind Hamza’s house, and then it’s off to the shores of Loch Garten situated in the Scottish Highlands.  Hamza finds out what it takes to bring a species back from extinction on an RSPB reserve. 

We see the marsh harrier in Somerset and why the landscape in the Somerset Levels are a beacon for conservationists.  In Sussex, you can be inspired by naturalists and wildlife photographer David Plummer who has transformed his garden into a wildlife haven.

Finally, it’s back to the Cairngorms to see some golden eagle chicks, and the programme ends at Hamza’s very first bird hide which he build in Ardnamurchan.  Here, Hamza reflects on what he has seen and what people are doing to help and protect birds of prey

Fly off to the BBC's website to find out more about the programme here. 

By the way, if you know of someone who would love a birds of prey experience, gift experience company BuyaGift has 36 Birds of Prey experience days. 

As a visitor from this website,  you can enjoy 15% off until 31 December 2023 with our exclusive code AHW2023.   It’s valid site wide, although some products are excluded from this offer.  Fly off to see the birds of prey experiences available with BuyaGift here.

If you love giving the birds and wildlife in your garden a gift, take a look at Garden Wildlife Direct. 

They’ve got everything you need for the birds and wildlife in your garden, be it bird food, bird baths, nesting boxes,  bird feeding stations and a huge range of feeders, wildlife houses, hedgehog food, suet food, plus garden ornaments.   They have window stick alerts, too, so the birds know there’s a window and don’t try to fly through it. 

They’ve also got quite a range of books and gifts for wildlife and bird lovers, and they also have bird feeding starter kits for anyone who wants to give feeding the birds a go for the first time.

Fly off to Garden Wildlife Direct here and treat them to something special!

Emma Bridgewater has a gorgeous new collection, Fruit - and in it, there are lots of goodies in a Blackberry theme!

Late summer/Autumn (and it's not far off!) is blackberry time - a lovely time to get out there with the kids or without them and get into the world of nature and go blackberry picking.  Come home and have them with ice-cream, yummy, or makeblackberry jam, or have them with natural yoghurt for breakfast - a very healthy way to start the day.

The Blackberry French Bowl: pile it high with blackberries!

This is the Blackberry Medium Jam Jar With Lid



This is the Blackberry 8 1/2 Inch Plate

There are other goodies in the range, too:  a tea-pot, a half pint mug, a small cake stand, a medium old bowl, and a small old bowl.

There are other fruits in the collection, such as Raspberries, Brambles and Quince.

Head off to the Emma Bridgewater Fruit Collection here.

Photo gifts make lovely ways to capture those special moments and memories and put them where you can see them, whether they are on a wall, on a fridge or in a photo book on a table.  You can go past them hanging up and smile at a memory!

Inkifi have a huge variety of photo gifts, of all different sorts of sizes, so there’s something for everyone.

 
There's a Heart Collage Frame

 
There are photo caption books

From classic frames to mini photo prints, heart collage frames and square photo prints, this is a great way to really make photos make their mark.  There are heart shaped collage frames which could be a great way to celebrate an anniversary or a marriage. 

 
There are fridge magnets, too!

They’ve also got a range of photo books, too, with soft covers (or not!) and also caption photo books.

 
There's grid posters

Of course, one of the great things about a photo gift is that you can do themes as well – so you could have a photo gift for pet owners, parents, grand-parents, single people, a holiday or a big travel adventure – there’s lots of ways to capture those lovely moments to make you smile!

Head off to Inkifi to see their range!