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GRUBBING OUT HEDGEROWS. "Today, however, our hedgerows are disappearing fast. Farmers removed a quarter of the hedgerows in England and Wales between 1946 and 1974, about 120,000 miles in all, or 4,500 miles a year." https://lnkd.in/eEGs6ZT View in LinkedIn

SYSTEMATIC CHANGE. "Already a quarter of our hedgerows, 24 million hedgerow trees, thousands of acres of down and heathland, a third of our woods and hundred upon hundred of ponds, streams, marshes and flower-rich meadows have disappeared. They have been systematically eliminated by farmers." https://lnkd.in/eg8ti6k View in LinkedIn

"A NEW AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION is underway. If allowed to proceed unhindered, it will transform the face of England." https://lnkd.in/eg8ti6k View in LinkedIn

EXPERIMENTAL MAGNETIC WORMHOLE. "However, an actual realization has not been possible until now. Here we construct and experimentally demonstrate a magnetostatic wormhole." (2015). https://lnkd.in/erp7QhY View in LinkedIn

DRASTIC LOSS. "Since 1945 there has been a drastic loss of hedgerows through removal and neglect throughout the UK, especially in eastern counties of England, which continues even now. It has been estimated that some 42% of the remaining British hedges, or about 154,000 km, are ancient and/or species-rich." https://lnkd.in/ehWUhtW View in LinkedIn

CONCEPTUAL MAGNETIC WORMHOLE. " A theoretical proposal by Greenleaf et al., presented a strategy to build a wormhole for electromagnetic waves. Based on metamaterials, it could allow electromagnetic wave propagation between two points in space through an invisible tunnel." https://lnkd.in/erp7QhY View in LinkedIn

"ANCIENT HEDGEROWS, which tend to be those which support the greatest diversity of plants and animals, are generally defined as those which were in existence before the Enclosure Acts, passed mainly between 1720 and 1840 in Britain." https://lnkd.in/ehWUhtW View in LinkedIn

"MAGNETIC MATERIALS naturally exist with extreme magnetic permeability values ranging from zero - superconductors - to effectively infinity - ferromagnets -, through many intermediate values. Metamaterials built from different combinations of them have enabled the realization of magnetic cloaks and other devices for shaping magnetic fields." https://lnkd.in/erp7QhY View in LinkedIn

"HEDGEROWS provide the framework of the English countryside. In the form in which we know them in Britain, hedgerows exist in only a handful of other spots around the world...By providing abundant cover, hedgerows have made England's wildlife richer by far than that of other lands." https://lnkd.in/eEGs6ZT View in LinkedIn

CATALONIA, by contrast, is still heavily forested, uses traditional crop rotation, and has left great areas of dense cane hedgerows intact. However, the EU legislation stripped Catalonia of livestock. Let Britain be a canary. View in LinkedIn