Ploughing a New Furrow - A Blueprint for Wildlife Friendly Farming Smith MalcolmPaperback
Ploughing a New Furrow - A Blueprint for Wildlife Friendly Farming Smith MalcolmPaperback Farmland wildlife has been decimated by intensive crop growing using pesticides, grubbing up hedges,…
Specifikacia Ploughing a New Furrow - A Blueprint for Wildlife Friendly Farming Smith MalcolmPaperback
Ploughing a New Furrow - A Blueprint for Wildlife Friendly Farming Smith MalcolmPaperback
Farmland wildlife has been decimated by intensive crop growing using pesticides, grubbing up hedges, ploughing heathland and draining marshes, etc. Once common farmland birds have declined by 54% since 1970 with farmland invertebrates declining by 40% in a few decades. With too many sheep grazing our moors, hills and mountains, a range of upland plants, invertebrates and birds has been diminished and the land converted to closely-grazed turf, perfect for heavy rain to cause catastrophic downstream floods.
Ploughing a New Furrow examines these stark figures and in the context of Brexit considers the unprecedented opportunity for wildlife once again to be nurtured by Britain's farmers alongside food production, reversing the enormous plant and animal losses our farmland has suffered. Since the 1930s a staggering 97% of our once flower-rich meadows has been lost. With its financial