Gardeners should stop mowing their lawns to let nature flourish and help combat the climate crisis, a charity urges.
Plantlife’s No Mow May campaign encourages people to invite wildlife into their gardens and cut pollution by locking up the mower for at least a month.
It says 97% of flower meadows have been lost since the 1970s, yet longer grass and flourishing meadows help to feed essential pollinators such as butterflies and bees.