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Suzy
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I've realised over the years that although the RSPB say they manage sites for all flora and fauna, that isn't really so where I live. Their management is heavily skewed towards birds, hence all the scraping and flattening.
We all have tales of lost little patches (or not so little) where every year we might reliably expect to see something, be it a plant, butterfly, insect or, yes, even a bird. Now no more due to heavy handed obliteration of habitat. All very sad. |
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AGILIS
Senior Member Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1689 |
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Some silly names that RSPB really stands for any more ideas . Royal society prefers birds Reptile site place bulldozed Rather scrape places barren Real stupid prats biased THIS WAS THE BULLDOZING ON HYDE HEATH A FEW YEARS BACK FOR those newer members,just what RSPB managements about. no dout its covered in foliage by now ,but the animal wont have recovered. keith[IMG] Edited by AGILIS - 10 Nov 2013 at 9:31am |
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GemmaJF
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In very many cases they will argue the work is necessary and will benefit in the long-term. My own monitoring of local sites that have undergone this kind of 'management' using plant machinery shows otherwise. Often there is an initial increase in sightings (as might be expected as surviving animals are pushed into smaller areas of habitat) followed by declines in overall numbers. As the areas recover (if they are allowed to depending on if they are mowed/grazed etc.) the animals do not return. The vegetation might look promising but as can be seen clearly from Keith's first picture the surface soil structure is destroyed. This is extremely imported for a whole range of smaller animals and would take decades to recover, if it ever did. |
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Robert V
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I saw this today...
It shows the ignorance at Government levels regarding soil structure, length of time to create sites etc etc. I would like to know how the populations of those translocations from Thames Gateway to Wiltshire have held up. I bet there's massive losses.
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