As a vegan animal rights activist, I have spent the past 10 years of my life looking for ways I can do my bit to help bring about a more compassionate world for all beings. I started Garden Guardians several years ago in response to the onslaught against the nature I was witnessing just outside my front door. The more I looked, the more I could see how conventional methods used in gardens and shared spaces were more about destroying than about cultivating life with poisoning, burning & cutting down being the norm. My aim is to help people shift their perspectives away from the idea that we are the owners of the land, towards embracing the concept of custodianship, with an emphasis on the responsibility we all have to care for the natural world and all the beings we share her with. I want to help create havens for nature in gardens and my hope is that if we can see the personhood of the smallest of animals, particularly those we have traditionally thought of as ‘undesirable’, then we can move away from the human-centric way of thinking that has proliferated in the world, and move towards a more compassionate way of being.