A new Environment Agency study released today shows 41% of England's native flora and fauna species have considerably decreased since 1970, with 15% at serious risk of extinction.
At the same time, numbers of priority mammal, bird, butterfly and moth species have gone down by 61%.Not too late to turn things around by restoring habitats
Sir James will make reference to the 1962 book Silent Spring by US writer Rachel Carson, credited with the starting the modern environmental movement, triggering the foundation of the US Environment Protection Agency and leading to a US-wide ban of the pesticide DTT. Her book chronicles the destruction of whole ecosystems as a result of careless and excessive use of synthetic pesticides."On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh," his speech reads."Since we humans and everything we cherish depends on nature, we have the strongest possible interest in avoiding that outcome.
He will cite the example of Steart Marshes on the Severn Estuary, which is the biggest coastal realignment project in the UK, protecting 100,000 homes from flooding and creating 250 hectares where marshland species can live.
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