A Living Landscape

The UK’s wildlife is in decline. Many countryside sights that were familiar a generation ago – meadows painted with colourful wildflowers, hedgerows filled with the songs and calls of farmland birds, fields teeming with pollinating insects – are now little more than a memory. As the specialised habitats that animals and plants depend on become fragmented and lost – a result of agriculture becoming more intensive and cities, towns and villages expanding – an ever-shrinking amount of space is left behind for nature.