The Killing Of The CountrysideOver then past fifty years the British countryside has changed out of all recognition. A wide range of wildlife species are disappearing - victims of modern intensive farming, of pesticides and fertilisers and the sheer relentless pressure to maximise output from every hedge bank and field corner. It need not have happened. The loss of our wildlife and countryside has come about through a deliberate and sustained national policy, one that costs the British people 8 billion a year. |
Contents
The Desert in our Midst | |
The New Inheritors | |
The Countryside in Ransom | |
No Figures in the Landscape | |
The Big Winners | |
The Riches We Squandered | |
A Famine at the Heart of the Feast | |
The Wasting Ground | |
A Place in the Country | |
Breaking the Chains | |
A Living Countryside | |
Notes | |