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revolution
be barriers or highways. It just depends how you look at them, says Hugh Warwick
conservation and working with partners Remember the lines that link need not be Street campaign. It’s hugely important, as
across the board can bring about huge straightforward, they can be pearls along a foraging hedgehog can cover more than
changes: we can truly have living a necklace. a mile per night.
landscapes once again.
Make sure you have spaces wild enough Making lines work for us and for wildlife
And we can take action ourselves. Look in your garden to let insects thrive. Of is a great way to start redressing some of
to the patches you can influence; for many course, there is far more out there than the damage we have inadvertently
of us that is our gardens. The best way to just things that fly, and we need to make caused. Why not begin with your garden
fit them into a living landscape is by provision for them as well. And that is or workplace, looking at how you can
making connections, at different levels. where a little engineering can be very open up highways or create stop-off
The most obvious is to supply nectar-rich useful – a hole in the fence, just 13cm points for your local plants and animals?
plants to attract insects – which in turn square, to let the terrestrial beasts join the And if you can get your neighbours
feed birds, bats and amphibians. fun. This is the essence of the Hedgehog involved, better still.
Frogs will travel several
hundred metres if your
pond smells good
How you can help
Plug your garden
into the linescape
We tend to think our gardens stop at
the fence, but wildlife doesn’t.
Log piles
Encourage invertebrates to colonise
in the damp, dark corners
Ponds
Attract highly mobile dragonflies
and draw in frogs, newts and
toads to spawn
Hedgehog holes
Give our prickly friends the right to
roam through your garden
Messy corners
Long grasses and wildflowers give
insects a home, attracting bats
Window boxes
Even if you don’t have a garden,
a vibrant window box is a great
wildlife habitat
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