What we can do to halt Britain’s wildlife decline | Letters
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Gareth Morgan says farmers hold the keys to unlocking nature’s recovery, Prof Julian Wiseman highlights research on the impact of domestic and feral cats, David Mills thinks the problems are caused by loss of habitat, while Penny Snook raises the impact of chemicals on frogs
The State of Nature report (Revealed: the shocking decline of UK wildlife, 4 October) confirms what we already knew – we are losing the battle to save nature. Fundamentally, despite some successes for rare species, our efforts are failing.
The report identifies many causes for the collapse in nature – infrastructure development and pollution must take a large portion of the blame – but it is clear that farmers hold the keys to unlocking nature’s recovery.
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