Wednesday 14 June 2023

More wildlife-friendly farming needed to stop decline of insects in Britain says report

More wildlife-friendly farming needed to stop decline of insects in Britain, says report

Conservation measures over the past 30 years have failed to stop the decline of insects on British farmland, a new report shows. Populations of bees, spiders, ground beetles and hoverflies have disappeared twice as fast in areas intensely farmed for crops, according to the paper, which looked at citizen science data on more than 1,500 invertebrate species.

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