Gardens 'Contain More Wildlife Than Farmland'

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THE country's leading agriculture body has hit back at suggestions that wildlife has been squeezed out of the countryside by modern farming.

Dr Ken Thompson, an expert in garden wildlife at Sheffield University, claims the average garden now contains more wildlife than the same-sized plot of farmland.

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Gardens 'Contain More Wildlife Than Farmland'

He warned that huge swathes of rural Britain had been turned into ecological "deserts" without weeds, wildflowers or insect life. In contrast, Britain's...

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