Gardeners play vital part for environment

POLLINATOR: Friends of the Earth has created a leaflet explaining how people can help bees and other animals.

POLLINATOR: Friends of the Earth has created a leaflet explainig how people can help bees and other animals.

 

Story by Ray Cobbett and Published in the Portsmouth News on the 8th April 2016

 

I was recently cycling in Suffolk and at one point looked across a prairie-size field with no sign of life other than two massive farm machines.

This scene goes some way towards explaining the serious depletion in populations of common garden birds, bees and other pollinators.

Farmland without habitats with soil crushed by gargantuan machines and laced with growth promoters and systemic pesticides is not a place for healthy birds and bees.

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