This week’s Country Life magazine takes a look at how volunteers are instrumental in saving some of our rarest species in the UK. Elsewhere, we find out about the regenerations of the baths in Bath, and take a look at the property market in this fine Georgian city.

In interiors we consider what your front door says about you, and in food and drink our kitchen garden cook makes some mouthwatering recipes with carrots. In architecture, Will Palin reports on a lost Soane masterpiece in Buckinghamshire while Quinlan Terry shares his favourite painting.