More than 1,300 tiny, critically endangered snails that were bred in a UK zoo were released on a remote Atlantic island in a bid by conservationists to save the species.

Life can thrive in temporary ponds, human-made ponds and even ghost ponds, places where life remembers a pond long disappeared. Let’s explore the bust and boom of pond life. Ponds can form everywhere.

and often visit garden ponds across the UK in search of slugs and snails. In winter they hibernate in pond mud or under log piles. The three-spined stickleback is a small fish found in ponds ...