Jules Howard

The Wildlife Pond Book (eBook, ePUB)

Create Your Own Pond Paradise for Wildlife

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This friendly, practical guide includes everything you need to know to pick up a spade, put in a pond and help wildlife flourish right outside your back door.

Ponds are vital oases for nature. They are nursery grounds, feeding stops and bathing spots. They are genetic superhighways and vibrant ecosystems each brimming with life, interactions and potential. And they are for everyone.

In The Wildlife Pond Book, Jules Howard offers a fresh perspective on ponds and encourages gardeners to reach for a garden spade and do something positive to benefit our shared neighbourhood nature.

As well as offering practical tips and advice on designing, planting up and maintaining your pond, Jules encourages readers to explore the wildlife that colonises it with a torch, a microscope or a good old-fashioned pond-dipping net.

With a foreword by award-winning wildlife-gardening author, Kate Bradbury, this helpful new guide includes a section outlining the hundreds of organisms that may turn up in your pond and is packed with creative ideas that have been tried and tested by author Jules Howard, an avid pond-builder, prolific pond-dipper and passionate voice for freshwater conservation for more than fifteen years.

So, no matter how big your outdoor space is, The Wildlife Pond Book is the guide you need to create your very own haven for nature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472958310
• Artikelnr.: 57923697

Autorenporträt

Jules Howard is a zoologist, writer, blogger and broadcaster. He writes on a host of topics relating to zoology and wildlife conservation, and appears regularly in BBC Wildlife Magazine and on radio and TV, including on BBC's The One Show, Nature and The Living World as well as BBC Breakfast and Radio 4's Today programme.

Jules also runs a social enterprise that has brought almost 100,000 young people closer to the natural world. He lives in Northamptonshire with his wife and two children. His book Wonderdog won the 2022 Barker Book Prize for non-fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Kate Bradbury
Introduction - the wonder of ponds
What makes ponds so special?
Prehistoric ponds
Ponds and civilisation
The birth of the ornamental pond
The state of Britain's ponds
Hidden values of ponds
The Idea Stage
Preparing your pond
Managing your pond
Planting up your pond
Pond animals to look out for
Exploring your pond
Glossary
Useful organisations
Taking inspiration from nature
Further reading
Image credits
Index
Acknowledgements