Save the planet by reimagining your back garden as an exotic jungle

HERE in Manaus in the heart of Amazonia, my garden may not house the tapirs, jaguars and monkeys that are ecotourism’s poster species in this part of the world, but it still has an impressive array of predators and potential prey lurking in the undergrowth. They are smaller than the average mammal, often with more limbs.

But what they lack in size and furriness they make up for in diversity. A crab spider…