Living alongside wildlife - David Chapman considers some top strategies to help wildlife on your smallholding
	I HAVE been writing about wildlife and its conservation in Smallholder for several years now and I thought it might be time to give a summary of the most useful strategies for wildlife conservation. So here are some strategies for helping wildlife and for helping you to see wildlife on your smallholding, as well as contacts to help you find out more about each idea.

Widlife haven in the city - Cowslips, campions and caddisflies – Caroline Ware describes a city oasis

A CRESCENDO of bird song greets me each morning as I cross the threshold from tarmac path and silent, sterile lawn to freely flowering grasses, daisies and buttercups buzzing with bumblebees and hoverflies. In this setting the incessant roar of traffic becomes insignificant as it pounds along Cromwell Road in South Kensington, London for, hidden behind the plane trees is the Natural History Museum's Wildlife Garden, host to birds, bees and butterflies and many other living organisms.