British Charities Encourage Gardeners to Support Wildlife

The Royal Horticultural Society has launched a major appeal to fund efforts promoting biodiversity. It has teemed up with the Wildlife Trusts to create a project called Wild About Gardens, a program to help educate gardeners on practices that will foster wildlife. The RHS will study the distribution and ecology of wildlife found in its gardens to better understand how urban gardeners can encourage wildlife.

Wildlife habitat has shrunk as land has been consumed for agriculture and development; ninety percent of wildflower meadows have been lost. Private gardens in the UK cover more area than all the designated National Nature Reserves. By helping gardeners to promote wildlife, some of the habitat loss can be ameliorated.

Link: RHS launches appeal to encourage gardeners to support wildlife a Royal Horticultural Society news release

Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 4:40 PM on May 20, 2005

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