Big Pond Dip 2012

Everyone knows that one of the best things you can do for wildlife in the garden is to put in a pond. But amazingly nobody really knows what you need to do to make a great wildlife garden pond.

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 What's the best size and depth? How important is really clean water? What should the edges be like? Is there enough shallow water? There are lots of myths about making ponds in garden - now we want to try to get to the real truth.

By taking part in the Big Pond Dip, you are helping Pond Conservation to find out what is living in garden and school ponds, to start answering some of these questions.

The information you gather will tell us how good garden ponds are for wildlife. It will also help us to tell what types of pond support the most animal life.

We will use this information to give advice about how to make garden ponds even better for wildlife.

Find out more by visiting the Pond Conservation website.