SOS: Save Our Sedge – woodland plants in decline?
by catherine, 25 September, 2009, 0 comments
A worrying decline in native woodland plants has been highlighted in the news this week by the conservation charity Plantlife. The Government-funded Countryside Survey has found that, although England is now less intensively farmed than ten years ago, wild plants and animals are not doing as well as might be expected. Britain has lost the equivalent of 16,000 miles of hedgerow or 6% in the last ten years. Read more...