"Get into woodlands", said the Duke. If only he cared about the kingfisher.
June 2020: Tall broadleaf trees can be seen near the middle of the cross-section above, farmed conifers are on each side. Most species of wildlife in Cornwall need the broadleaf, but it's much easier for a logging contractor to cut all of the trees. A stream runs right-to-left in the middle of the cleared ground (beyond the track which you can see), and it was lined with broadleaf in the first half of 2019. A kingfisher could explore but it won't now, because it'll only fly where there's something to perch on. Where the fields are used for farming, woodlands have been a last refuge for many wild species, but even the Prince who said he'll, "protect and restore Nature" (at Earthshot in Boston, Ma.) continues to convert old woods ever more thoroughly into spruce monoculture. See more at bit.ly/DuchUn . On a public notice which suggests that operations began in October 2022 (not in May 2019), the Duchy justifies clearance of rare 'carr' habitat u...