Make Your Home a Nature Reserve

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.