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Being able to monitor the wildlife in your garden, and taking small, simple steps that allow us to measure our successes in attracting certain species, boosting species numbers, and, most crucially, increasing the number of beneficial interactions within the system can make a big difference.
Collecting data and monitoring the life around us can boost our confidence as gardeners, helping us to see empirically that we are on the right track. It can help us see where we are doing really well, and also where there may still be improvements to be made.
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