Preserving the natural environment: wildlife gardening - preview
Reg Snowdon of Northumbria MM tells us how to make a difference where we are
There is an outside chance that humanity may stop the overheating of the planet and preserve our natural environment But excess carbon dioxide is not the only product of industrialisation we need to watch out for Intensive farming is an efficient destroyer of wildlife; and, unless we find ways to conserve and restore Earth's green mantle, there will be no natural environment worth preserving
Only fifty yards from our garden gate there is a bridle path leading directly into open farmland Over the last half-century, walking our dog, we have seen hedges grubbed-up together with their primroses, the disappearance of lapwings and skylarks, unimproved pasture replaced by well-drained arable land and a prairie-like monoculture of oil-seed rape or short-stemmed barley There is no particular moment when I realised that the countryside of my childhood had gone forever; fields of cowslips I used to walk through on my way home from school; the corncrakes I listened to just over our garden fence in County Durham, now completely banished from mainland Britain In fifty years, we have lost ninety-eight per cent of our flower-rich meadows and 200,000 miles of hedgerows Every year each English county loses one species of wildflower
Reg Snowdon
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