Lost? They’re not a set of fucking car keys now are they? And it aint as if they’re incon-fucking-spicuous now is it?
Natural History Museum, snippet from the article:
“Recent data released by the UK government, for example, has found that 48% of all bird species in the UK declined in just the five years between 2015 and 2020. While within this period woodland birds were found to be doing the worst, the government data also showed that, overall, it was the farmland birds that have declined the most.
The BTO data underscores this, showing how there are now 73 million fewer birds in our skies. This number, however, is masked by an increase of some 41 million birds from certain species such as wrens, wood pigeons and blackcaps. The total estimated loss of individual birds is actually and even sharper drop of some 114 million.”
And yet councils, developers and other organisations, including supermarkets, race to fell as many trees as they can, dig out hedgerows, prevent birds from nesting by putting up nets.
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This is wrong. The science is clear.
When I was a kid, I used to be woken up every morning by the ‘Dawn Chorus’ of birds in the trees. It was near deafening – so many birds of so many species yelling chirping chirruping warbling at the top of their throats.
When I was last there a few years ago… near silence.
Few birds.
And not a single person who can change that gives a shit because the birds don’t pay them, they haven’t been lost just killed by the same greed killing the rest of us.
It’s no secret that we are living during the 6th mass extinction event
How much are cats to blame? Cats seem to be everywhere roaming about and they devastate wildlife
There aren’t any dead insects on my car anymore and I commute the entire length of M3 and through The New Forest. I don’t even need to clean my car all summer now. 25 years ago my car used to go black with bugs all over it.
That’s got to be related surely?
Tree felling, declining insect populations, increasing numbers of outdoor cats, increasing noise/light pollution…we’re doing a lot to cause this, but people will not care until it is far too late to help.
Yeah we destroyed all their habitats. Destroying trees and hedges kills birds.
But I imagine everyone is gonna blame cats
And then when you work as a planner / urban designer, you have to fight tooth and nail over *every SINGLE TREE* you’ve incorporated into a Masterplan. It’s ridiculous. « We want to promote biodiversity and support wildlife, but not if it’s more complicated than 1x tree and some flat grass lawn » it’s especially frustrating in cities like Manchester, who need the biodiversity/green networks more than ever…
Overpopulation is to blame. Everywhere I look another part of our green belt is being concreted over. We are a Tiny island that’s vastly overpopulated
What they don’t tell you is that they were replaced with drones as part of a government surveillance programme to monitor the general public.
We do need some proper rewilding. But the NIMBY problem.
I have noticed this year I haven’t seen many chicks at all when some springs I see dozens of little families in the local park. I think bird flu has really hurt numbers
Do we still need birds? Instead we can rely on drones, made to measure and green powered. You can strap a camera or a bomb on them. Guide them around the sky, land them where you want.
Birds are fickle. Drones are the future.
There’s a grim irony in the way streets of new build developments are often named after the species or habitat they have displaced.
Cats kill tens of millions of animals in this country in the summer alone, they need far more controls on cats .
Recommend read Rebirding by Benedict Macdonald. The book assesses the reduction in numbers with many specific examples and then goes on to recommend possible solutions.
I’d say the over arching theory is that the majority of land management allow no space for animals to live in habitat that resembles what they evolved in. Be that because of pesticides, herbicides, or management for one specific species (grouse, deer, individual crops).
Benedict assesses possible rewilding projects and discusses economics of eco tourism Vs livestock etc
There’s a lot of factors at play, loss of habitat, loss of food. Also according to the RSPB cats in the UK kill 27 million birds per year, this could easily be reduced by using collars with a bells.
And yet the fuckers are still waking me up at 4.30am with their ‘dawn chorus’
The construction industry is a monster, build build build to accommodate more and more people we can’t cope with. Building on farmland, woodland, every piece of green that used to sustain insects, birds and other wildlife.
What do we expect with the amount of chem trails in the sky….
I live in rural Cornwall with fields a wood and a large garden, Absolutely almost no dawn chorus.
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No wonder I’m still single
Lost? They’re not a set of fucking car keys now are they? And it aint as if they’re incon-fucking-spicuous now is it?
Natural History Museum, snippet from the article:
“Recent data released by the UK government, for example, has found that 48% of all bird species in the UK declined in just the five years between 2015 and 2020. While within this period woodland birds were found to be doing the worst, the government data also showed that, overall, it was the farmland birds that have declined the most.
The BTO data underscores this, showing how there are now 73 million fewer birds in our skies. This number, however, is masked by an increase of some 41 million birds from certain species such as wrens, wood pigeons and blackcaps. The total estimated loss of individual birds is actually and even sharper drop of some 114 million.”
And yet councils, developers and other organisations, including supermarkets, race to fell as many trees as they can, dig out hedgerows, prevent birds from nesting by putting up nets.
​
This is wrong. The science is clear.
When I was a kid, I used to be woken up every morning by the ‘Dawn Chorus’ of birds in the trees. It was near deafening – so many birds of so many species yelling chirping chirruping warbling at the top of their throats.
When I was last there a few years ago… near silence.
Few birds.
And not a single person who can change that gives a shit because the birds don’t pay them, they haven’t been lost just killed by the same greed killing the rest of us.
It’s no secret that we are living during the 6th mass extinction event
How much are cats to blame? Cats seem to be everywhere roaming about and they devastate wildlife
There aren’t any dead insects on my car anymore and I commute the entire length of M3 and through The New Forest. I don’t even need to clean my car all summer now. 25 years ago my car used to go black with bugs all over it.
That’s got to be related surely?
Tree felling, declining insect populations, increasing numbers of outdoor cats, increasing noise/light pollution…we’re doing a lot to cause this, but people will not care until it is far too late to help.
Yeah we destroyed all their habitats. Destroying trees and hedges kills birds.
But I imagine everyone is gonna blame cats
And then when you work as a planner / urban designer, you have to fight tooth and nail over *every SINGLE TREE* you’ve incorporated into a Masterplan. It’s ridiculous. « We want to promote biodiversity and support wildlife, but not if it’s more complicated than 1x tree and some flat grass lawn » it’s especially frustrating in cities like Manchester, who need the biodiversity/green networks more than ever…
Overpopulation is to blame. Everywhere I look another part of our green belt is being concreted over. We are a Tiny island that’s vastly overpopulated
What they don’t tell you is that they were replaced with drones as part of a government surveillance programme to monitor the general public.
We do need some proper rewilding. But the NIMBY problem.
I have noticed this year I haven’t seen many chicks at all when some springs I see dozens of little families in the local park. I think bird flu has really hurt numbers
Do we still need birds? Instead we can rely on drones, made to measure and green powered. You can strap a camera or a bomb on them. Guide them around the sky, land them where you want.
Birds are fickle. Drones are the future.
There’s a grim irony in the way streets of new build developments are often named after the species or habitat they have displaced.
Cats kill tens of millions of animals in this country in the summer alone, they need far more controls on cats .
Recommend read Rebirding by Benedict Macdonald. The book assesses the reduction in numbers with many specific examples and then goes on to recommend possible solutions.
I’d say the over arching theory is that the majority of land management allow no space for animals to live in habitat that resembles what they evolved in. Be that because of pesticides, herbicides, or management for one specific species (grouse, deer, individual crops).
Benedict assesses possible rewilding projects and discusses economics of eco tourism Vs livestock etc
There’s a lot of factors at play, loss of habitat, loss of food. Also according to the RSPB cats in the UK kill 27 million birds per year, this could easily be reduced by using collars with a bells.
And yet the fuckers are still waking me up at 4.30am with their ‘dawn chorus’
The construction industry is a monster, build build build to accommodate more and more people we can’t cope with. Building on farmland, woodland, every piece of green that used to sustain insects, birds and other wildlife.
What do we expect with the amount of chem trails in the sky….
I live in rural Cornwall with fields a wood and a large garden, Absolutely almost no dawn chorus.