Build a hedgehog highway! 33 ways to welcome more wildlife into your garden

Whatever your outside space - garden, balcony or window box - you can turn it into a haven for nature with a pint-sized pond and a slowworm sunbedIt is easy to feel hopeless about the future of British wildlife. The 2023 State of Nature report found that one in six species are at risk of extinction, with the groups most under threat including plants, birds, amphibians and reptiles, fungi and land mammals. But many of us can do something simple to help: gardening."There are 23m gardens in Britain, so we can make a real difference," says Rob Stoneman from the Wildlife Trusts. Gardens cover a bigger area than all the UK's nature reserves combined, he says. "If you haven't got a garden, perhaps you could have a window box, or get involved in a community garden, or apply for an allotment." Continue reading...