The ninth Dumfries & Galloway Wildlife Festival runs from 31 March to 15 April 2012. There are more than 80 events over two weeks with some new exciting additions to the festival. Look out for the new exhibition about ferns at Logan Botanic Gardens, “Pteridomania” running for the whole festival or the Wild Food Forage in Langholm with a cooking demonstration and free lunch! Another event with a difference this year is making a Tattie bogle (or scarecrow to you and me) at Cairnsmore of Fleet NNR. Popular activities held again this year include the Stars and Stripes badger watches at WWT Caerlaverock, the hatchery open days by both Galloway Fisheries Trust and the Nith Catchment Fishery Trust and a whole range of family activities for Easter. Events across the whole of Dumfries and Galloway with something for everyone to enjoy!