When gardens can become lifeboats

When gardens can become lifeboats

With cuckoos gone and insects vanishing, Neil Walker believes towns like Sherborne are unexpected sanctuaries for wildlife pushed out of farmland Urban red fox (Vulpes vulpes) wandering on top of brick wall spiked with broken glass on very early morning in residential gardens. For most of us, the decline in wildlife has been gradual enough to feel almost invisible – until one day it isn’t. Fewer insects spattered on windscreens. Empty verges wh…