Month: September 2022

FIVE PERCENT MEASURE. "Our ability to monitor the state of nature, and respond with appropriate conservation action, is hampered by a lack of knowledge on the trends of most of the UK’s plant and animal species." https://lnkd.in/egeTAuK View in LinkedIn

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

BRITISH WILDLIFE has been iconic for its diversity and stability for generations of writers. But since Marion Shoard's book 'The Theft of the Countryside' in 1980, the general public had been largely unaware of enormous changes in our countryside, in terms of landscape. View in LinkedIn

BRITISH WILDLIFE. In 2015, Michael McCarthy's 'The Moth Snowstorm' laid out the case, along with other public reports, for the devastation of UK's number of creatures which he called "the great thinning." View in LinkedIn

LOSS OF HALF IN FIFTY. "How Britain has changed in the last half-century...a country which, in that same relatively short time, has annihilated half its biodiversity." https://lnkd.in/esig3Kt View in LinkedIn

RICHNESS LOST. "The country I was born into possessed something wonderful it absolutely possesses no longer: natural abundance." https://lnkd.in/esig3Kt View in LinkedIn

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

UNIMAGINABLE CHANGE. "That a country should lose half its wildlife in little more than half a century seems unimaginable, scarcely to be believed." https://lnkd.in/esig3Kt View in LinkedIn

UNIMAGINABLE CHANGE. "But the figures are there, in the most comprehensive datasets in the world for the changing status of at least three major groups of species: birds, wild flowers, and butterflies. Their British populations have all been devastated." https://lnkd.in/esig3Kt View in LinkedIn

CULTIVATED HABITAT. "The engine of this destruction took British society by surprise: it was farming. One of the key characteristics, especially in the lowlands of England, is often overlooked because it is so obvious: it exists on farmland. It has nowhere else to go." https://lnkd.in/esig3Kt View in LinkedIn