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Old 20-09-2006, 10:18 AM
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Re: Re-wilding

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Originally Posted by Alan
Another problem I have, is that a lot of people seem to have the opinion that most of the landscape needs to be managed to stop it ‘going to wrack and ruin’ as they often put it! They don’t stop to consider that the planet looked after itself very well thank you before we evolved!

Yes, but there are plenty of British species that have evolved/changed their behaviour to fit in with man's management of the landscape. Not for nothing is there a distinction 'farmland birds' including the tree sparrow, yellowhammer, grey partridge etc.
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