linkedin post 2015-11-07 07:59:30

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RICHNESS LOST. "There was a profusion of life forms all about us, from house flies to house sparrows, even in the suburbs: there was a richness of weeds, there was a richness of pests, there was a richness of organisms that were glorious...abundance...has been destroyed." https://lnkd.in/esig3Kt View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2015-11-08 08:44:12

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THE 1947 AGRICULTURE ACT "drove changes in farming policy that had a significant impact on farmland. Hedgerows were lost as fields became larger, chemical use increased and the quality and quantity of farmland habitats diminished. Samples of the seed bank in arable soils suggest the number of weed seeds declined by 1% per year during the 20th century." https://lnkd.in/egeTAuK View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2015-11-08 08:41:28

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INTENSIVE FARMING. "After the Second World War Two major changes came to farming in Britain. The first was new technology: immensely powerful new agricultural machines, chemicals and techniques.the second, even more important, was the economic pressure to use all this to the uttermost, to squeeze every last penny of profit from the land." https://lnkd.in/esig3Kt View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2015-11-07 07:45:34

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FIVE PERCENT MEASURE. "We can report quantitative trends for only 5% of the 59,000 or so terrestrial and freshwater species in the UK, and for very few of the 8,500 marine species. Our knowledge is strongly biased towards vertebrates and we know little about the fortunes of many invertebrates and fungi." https://lnkd.in/egeTAuK View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2015-11-08 08:36:10

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MISPLACED TRUST. "Farmers were respected and seen in the public mind as the eternal guardians of the countryside and its wildlife, and consequently excluded from the planning system and in no way bound by its constraints. As Mr Schwarzenegger would say: Big Mistake." https://lnkd.in/esig3Kt View in LinkedIn
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