Swallow, swift and house martin populations have nearly halved, finds UK bird survey | Birds

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1. “the turtle dove – which was once a common sight on agricultural land – showing a reduction in numbers of 97% since 1995”

   Imagine how hard it’d be if you decided you wanted to kill practically all of a particular bird species.
   They cared so little about the environmental damage they’re causing they’ve managed to do it by accident.

2. You probably have to choose between an agricultural industry and this kind of stuff. The regenerative farming malarkey is a kind of expensive niche thing that can’t compete with regular farming. The real concerning thing is the insect population

3. As an older person insects are the main visible indicator of how much damage we’ve done in my lifetime.

   I’m only reading about stuff like ¼ of our mammals facing extinction and that we are one of the most mature depleted countries on earth.

   “The advent of mass farming, factories, roads, trainlines and urban sprawl has been a death knell for wild places”

   Yet so many people are advocating for even more of the stuff that’s literally killing our animals without acknowledging the problem. I agree we need more infrastructure now but to keep going and going?

   https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2020/september/uk-has-led-the-world-in-destroying-the-natural-environment.html