The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet Audiobook (Free)

Presented by Penguin.

**THE SUNDAY Situations BESTSELLER**

YOUR GARDEN Jungle is about the wildlife that lives right under our noses, inside our gardens and parks, between the gaps in the pavement, and in the soil beneath our feet. Wherever you are at this time, the probabilities are that we now have worms, woodlice, centipedes, flies, silverfish, wasps, beetles, mice, shrews and much, much more, silently living in a matter of several paces of you.

Dave Goulson gives us an insight into the amazing and about YOUR GARDEN Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet sometimes odd lives of the creatures, taking us burrowing into the compost heap, digging beneath the yard and diving in to the backyard pond. He clarifies how our lives and eventually the destiny of humankind are inextricably intertwined with that of earwigs, bees, lacewings and hoverflies, unappreciated heroes of the natural world.

YOUR GARDEN Jungle is at times an immensely serious book, exploring the environmental harm inadvertently done by gardeners who buy intensively reared plants in disposable plastic pots, sprayed with pesticides and grown in peat cut from the ground. Goulson argues that landscapes could become locations where we can reconnect with character and rediscover where meals comes from. With just a couple small changes, our gardens could turn into a vast network of small character reserves, where human beings and wildlife can thrive jointly in harmony rather than conflict.

For anyone who includes a backyard, and cares about our world, this book is vital reading.