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The Garden Jungle: Book Review

In The Garden Jungle, Professor Dave Goulson, gives what is perhaps his most personal book to date, and outlines his perspective on how we can garden for wildlife. Within this book Goulson describes various bugs and beasties that scuttle around our back gardens often unnoticed and suggests how and why we should care about these often-ignored animals.

Bumblebees and other bees (of which Goulson is a fan) are well known for their importance in pollination, but Goulson also highlight the jobs that earth worms, hoverflies and even earwigs amongst other animals do in maintaining our gardens, and indeed agriculture.

This book is not meant as a gardening guide (although there are useful tips) but is more of a thought-provoking piece about how we produce food and our relationship with our gardens.

Goulson’s colourful anecdotes make this book an easy read but whist optimistic and cheerful throughout Goulson’s frustration at large scale food production and agrochemical companies is also clear. Readers of the The Garden Jungle will fall into two categories. People who own gardens and will feel inspired to garden for wildlife, and other people who do not own a garden but will want one more so than ever!

Book review done for the Biologist magazine. Click here for link

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