"Get into woodlands", said the last Duke. If only he'd cared about the kingfisher.
June 2020: Tall broadleaf trees are near the middle of the cross-section above, farmed conifers are on each side. Wildlife in Cornwall needs the broadleaf but it's much easier for a logging contractor to cut every tree. A stream runs right-to-left in the middle of the cleared fore-ground (beyond the track which you can see.) It was lined with broadleaf in the first half of 2019. No kingfisher can explore now, because it'll only fly where there's something to perch on. Where 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 turn old woods ever more thoroughly into spruce monoculture. 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 under the guise of, "thinning trees that line the tracks to...