If you have a pond in your garden are you aware just how important it is to the continued support of Britain’s wildlife? Ponds in the UK have been disappearing rapidly over the last couple of hundred years. And, as mankind has been gradually removing or filling in ponds to create new housing or turning over land for industrial use, it is hard to see how we will ever return to the huge number of pond’s that were once found on Britain’s shores.

The humble garden pond now plays an important part of maintaining Britain’s bio-diversity and providing a suitable habitat to hundreds of different species whose lives would not be supported without the pond.

If you have a pond in your garden a good experiment is to take a record of the different species you see in or around your pond. Identifying these species and logging the species activity over the next few years will give you an idea of how these species are performing with respect to reproduction and it’s also a great way to keep a record of the different types of indigenous British species in your local area. You will be amazed at the number of species you record and thrilled when you find a new visitor to your garden pond.