Make Your Home a Nature Reserve

Donna Mullen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2024
O'Brien Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78849-472-4 (ISBN)

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Insects, birds, bats, foxes, badgers, shrews. These beautiful and fascinating creatures need somewhere to live, as their own natural habitats become more and more endangered. Learn how to make your space – from a windowbox to a suburban garden to a farm – inviting to nature. And learn all about Ireland’s wildlife, from tiny plants to large mammals.

Bees, butterflies, bats, badgers …

These beautiful and fascinating creatures need a little help from us, as their natural habitats are under pressure.

It’s time to invite nature into your home – whether it’s a window box, a suburban garden or a farm. Learn how to build a pond, make places for bats to roost and spaces for hedgehogs to ramble. Discover the amazing secret lives of Ireland’s wildlife, from tiny bugs to large mammals.

Do try this at home!

Donna Mullen has worked as an ecologist for over thirty years and is a founding member of Bat Conservation Ireland and the Irish Environmental Network. She met her husband at a bat group meeting, and together they bought a farm in Meath and turned it into Golashane Nature Reserve. The reserve, home to several people and hundreds of plants, birds, mammals, insects and amphibians, has won several awards, including an EU Rural Inspiration award. Every week someone arrives at the door to ask how to create a nature reserve in their own home. Eoin O’Brien is a songwriter and musician, a writer and illustrator. He enjoys nothing more than a good old singsong around a kitchen table or a bonfire. He has two fantastic teenage children and lives in historic Glasnevin in north Dublin.

INTRODUCTION

WHAT LIES BENEATH

Earthworms

Springtails

Dung beetles

Building healthy soil

LARGER MAMMALS

Badgers

Foxes

Rabbits and hares

Stoats

Pine martens

Hedgehogs

SMALLER MAMMALS

Bats

Shrews

Rats and mice

Squirrels

SMALLER BIRDS

Blue tits

House sparrows

Starlings

Dunnocks Robins

Wrens

Finches

BIGGER BIRDS

Jackdaws

Magpies

Rooks

Pigeons

Buzzards

Sparrowhawks

Kestrels

FLYING INSECTS

Carder bees

Butterflies and moths

THE BIG PICTURE – AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT

BUILD YOUR OWN POND

Frogs

MAKE YOUR COMMUNITY A NATURE RESERVE

USING THE LAW

FAMILY QUIZ

YEAR PLANNER

ANIMAL OF THE YEAR PLAN

Erscheinungsdatum	13.04.2024
Illustrationen	Eoin O'Brien
Verlagsort	Dublin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 216 mm
Gewicht	393 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
ISBN-10	1-78849-472-5 / 1788494725
ISBN-13	978-1-78849-472-4 / 9781788494724
Zustand	Neuware