I am a birder and I am genuinely frightened. I remember a time in the 70s and 80s when common birds like house sparrows WERE common: they hopped along the streets looking for food and chirped in the hedges and on the roofs of houses; when swifts and house martins were so numerous they swooped near your face you could almost catch them - in LONDON! Where the dawn chorus was loud and taken for granted. Now, outside my window it is silent as the grave. Biodiversity loss will lead to more economic loss. If the govt cares about the economy like they say they do, then they need to do something about reversing the loss of biodiversity. It really is scandalous.
This is what a mass extinction feels like. Entire food chains are failing. If you are scared, think about what your kids and grandkids will be feeling in 50 - 100 years.
On a happier note, the disused land, a closed coal pit, behind my house was neglected for years until it became a landfill site for 13 years. The company and the farmer who had fields nearby slowly returned the wasteland - slag heaps - landfill site into an incredible nature reserve. 10's of 1000s trees planted. Beehives introduced. A nature trail. Fishing ponds, and so much more. Little by little, inching along can turn things around. 🎉
@@jonh9561 Lyme and Wood Country Park. The landfill company has gone. I think the farmer may be retired. I moved away almost 6 years ago but both the farmer and the recycling company were always great folk.
I think the government should ensure the over 1 million empty homes are utilised rather than build all these new developments. Even when empty, old houses will last longer than most of the shoddy new builds.
Therese Coffey mentioned part of the problem when she said that the government had to balance the needs of the environment with building affordable homes for young people. We seem to be hooked on population growth, and disproportionately in the Southeast, where wildlife degradation is some of the worst. If we had a stable population we could largely recycle housing land, and not have to intensify agriculture continually in order to keep up.
The loss of birds hasva lot to do with the loss of mixed farming in the UK. When we farmed the land properly by having 5 year lays. 5 years grass, Then 5 years arable the land had muck put back into it. It gave the soil body and it had life, insects etc . The birds would come and feed of the insect and undersoil worms etc. Seagulls used to follow the ploughs , Not anymore and the soil has lost its body its dry , nothing and has to be fed by artificial fertiliser which does nothing for the soil. Membership of the EU has been largely responsible. The triple AAA rule finshed mixed farming in the UK. The big agro fertiliser have very strong lobbies within the EU,WEF and World bank. We need a return to mixed farming to build body back into the soil. We will then get back the worms and insects etc which will bring back the birds. As a small farmer ive seen the changes and if we can see the problem why can't anyone else?
Having looked into it you're right. I have to acknowledge the EU Common Agricultural Policy hasn't been beneficial for the environment nor has it help reduce emissions and it didn't encourage farmers down a less polluting pathway, instead encouraging more intensive farming methods over decades which has helped usher in the decline in biodiversity...You know it's really odd. I regularly listen to The Archers, a rural drama on BBC radio 4. But to my knowledge there's been no mention of the climate crisis, or of Brexit, of the Australian trade deal, or farming practices and its impacts, or of the cost of living crisis and how farms are struggling to survive. Every now and then they mention rewilding, but that's about it: it's a if there isn't an environmental crisis. I know it's only a drama; even so I expect it to deal with the issues of the real world. Instead, Ambridge seems like a closed off community from the everyday realities of the wider society.
….’ the soil has lost its body’… As a farmer you have touched the heart of the matter. Can you persuade your farming colleagues to think and act in the same manner? Alex Thomson is to be congratulated for his reports on UK environment.
Getting chemicals out of farming would be beneficial to everyone - human, wildlife, plants and soil alike! 20 years I've lived next door to a sheep/cattle farm - and this year they've ploughed up the field next to me and planted it with rapeseed. Twice me and my husband have been doused with a fog of chemicals, and we know that the Glyphosate will be coming next Summer. I have a field full of fruit plants, all grown organically - and that will end thanks to this farmer's GM crop. Those of my plants that don't get killed off will be polluted. This farmer hasn't given the least thought as to how his chemicals affect his neighbours, or their land (I've already had to deal with devastating contamination from herbicides before). But then the farmers in my neighbourhood show very little regard for the environment generally: plastic sheets and bags polluting streams, a tractor engine in the river, sacks of dead lambs left in a lay-by, old drums of agricultural chemicals dumped in the woods, coils of barbed wire left to rust in ditches and woodlands, feed buckets left to blow around the countryside until UV rays make them brittle and fall apart. Farmers seem to be as bad at littering the land as fishermen are at littering the sea. Farms should at least be inspected for their commitment to environment and to ensure that neighbouring properties are safeguarded from their activities.
@@Skylark_Jones the EU was made aware of this a while ago & the Common Agricultural Policy now has a timeline of changes every year to improve the situation, we have seen fields paid to be left fallow, neonicotinoids banned & hedges & borders of fields expanded. Since Brexit this has accelerated but the UK government haven't kept pace. Because the EU is democratic (strangely, Mrs Thatcher improved this) election voting practices make a huge difference, the lobby groups have huge budgets to get MEPs sympathetic to their causes elected, we saw this with the UK delegation being swamped by UKIP & far fewer Green MEPs (though the Greens did a brilliant job, Molly Scott-Cato in particular was a joy to watch). Farage was on the Fisheries Committee but didn't actually attend a meeting. Other countries have their own right/left, lobbyist/uncorrupt balances & it's mostly about how politically engaged their electorates are.
@@Skylark_Jones The Archers was set up during WWII to give farmers weather forecasts & to broadcast Government policies but recently the Government propaganda it disseminates has been less useful.
Not unexpected, HS2 carved through 16 ancient woodlands thanks Boris. Should have been stopped before it got underway. Train fees on HS2 will be subsided by other train routes.
That seems to have been the point, ancient woodlands, SSSIs, AONBs marshland, heathland & everything else opened to development. Road schemes in surprising places too.
I live in Snowdonia and even here I’ve seen serious decline in bird life I loose count of the Dead Sea birds on my local beaches Bird flue? Wind farms? Sewerage? I suspect all
I'm a Brit living in a small mountain valley in British Columbia. The changes out here are stark, very little insects now, I walk my land each morning & there's no spider webs anymore, the bird population has completely changed. The road kill has disappeared ( fewer bears& dear). I have a basalt cliff 900' high that now has rockslides. We had a wildfire sweep through Aug 18 start, it took 5 wks of helicopters & bulldozers to end it. This WILL come your way.
@@sarahp007 Bird deaths caused by humans CAUSE OF BIRD DEATH | ALL BIRDS | CONTRIBUTION TO TOTAL HUMAN-RELATED BIRD DEATHS 1 Cats (feral) 79,600,000 1 in 2.3 2 Cats (domestic) 54,880,000 1 in 3.4 3 Power line collisions 16,810,000 1 in 11.1 4 Buildings (houses) 16,390,000 1 in 11.4 5 Road vehicle collisions 9,814,000 1 in 19 6 Harvest (game birds) 2,817,000 1 in 66.2 7 Buildings (low, mid & high rise) 1,317,130 1 in 141.5 8 Commercial forestry 887,835 1 in 210 9 Power electrocutions 184,300 1 in 1,011.6 10 Agriculture (haying & mowing) 135,400 1 in 1,376.9 11 Communication tower collisions 101,500 1 in 1,836.7 12 Wind energy collisions 13,060 1 in 14,275 13 All other 3,479,328 1 in 53.6 14 Total 186,429,553 100 Annual human-related causes of avian deaths, Canada. Adapted from Table 3, Avian Conservation and Ecology 8(2): 11.
@@sarahp007 yes, wind turbines kill birds - an average of 1.3 deaths per turbine per year in high-fatality areas like the south of Spain near Gibraltar which is a migration route from Africa right up to Russia.
October 2021 Tory MPs voted to ditch EU clean waters law. 17 May 2023 "Water bosses issue grovelling apology after millions of tons of sewage dumped in Britain’s rivers and coasts" 5 Aug 2023 "Fifty-seven swimmers fall sick and get diarrhoea at world triathlon championship in Sunderland" 1 Oct 2023 "Competitors report falling ill after triathlon event in waters of river Eden. Investigation begins as people complain of diarrhoea and vomiting after swimming in Hever Castle’s lake."
Living in the country all my 70 years I have noticed since covid the local birds seem to spend more time on roofs , telephone wires and even the road than flying.Insects (apart from midges) are very rare too.
Yes, mosquitoes are thriving in Thurrock too, which is worrying considering how many ports we have with foreign boat crews carrying foreign diseases for the mosquitoes to spread. Rats are thriving too.
@prideofdurham4776 ... Plenty of insects around, dragonflies, butterflies, ladybirds, beetles and spiders are plentiful, even though some varieties are becoming rarer or extinct.
There are too many humans on this earth, everyone wants food, clean water, sanitation, a home, etc. This all comes at a price, a price paid for by nature. Time for a serious rethink on human population figures.
And how about open borders? A city the size of Wolverhampton will have to be built each year to accommodate the new arrivals flooding into the country. I wonder if any of the legacy / corporate media will provide analysis on this and the impact it will have on nature? We already have 70m on this tiny island
Humanity is the most ignorant and the biggest immediate danger to the world. When will we start electing governments that are truly concerned with our and the our planets survival!?
Truthful answer ... never. Why? Because people when voting are generally greedy, selfish and self serving, also the people that always seem to end up in positions of authority and power are self serving heartless individuals.
God plz save this animals and around the world they r part of our life we can’t live without them they r part of this univers,I really don't know what will happened in our life and the world if they r gone
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Is it profitable to protect wildlife in the short term? Will it mean a stock market boom? Increased returns to hedge funds? Nope? So it's pretty pointless to expect anything from the Tories then.
It is not just Britain, Australia is in a similar situation and other countries. The real cause is the exponential growth of population. It is people who cause pollution and the more dense they are and the faster they increase in numbers the greater the pressure they put on enviroment. The very environment that sustains the population. It is a catch 22 situation and conservation will always be a number of steps behind. The holy grail of economics is expansion and the basic unit is a person it is a no win situation.
I’ve been saying this for years . I’m developed countries we should know better and have a cap on the amount of children we have and work as a team . But unfortunately I’m some religions they just breed like animals then come to our countries. I dread to see what our future will be like
@@oliverharris9567 It is not natural births that is the main driver for population growth in the UK but immigration last year net immigration was 606,600 clearly these numbers will have a significant effect on the infrastructure including sewage, food production, energy, housing the list goes on all of which will need long term investment to meet demand, they could of course cut immigration but that would not serve the pyramid scheme known as GDP.
@@xvdd1So how does that explain rainforests declining or coral reefs is it all those migrants living in the sea, don't be absurd it has nothing to do with immigration it's not even a population problem it's capitalism it's consumption it's what happens when money is detached from any real world metric and the notion of infinite growth is applied to a planet with very finite resources. Even housing in the UK it's profit not migrants there are thousands of vacant luxury apartments and houses just in London because of property banking and money laundering because of greed by the wealthiest individuals. You are literally blaming the least powerful and most economically deprived group for a problem caused by the wealthiest most powerful members of society. You're part of the problem too not just because you will stand there shouting "it's migrants' at anyone trying to resolve these problems, not just because you harbour and insulate people like Rishi Sunak and enable them to continue in their corruption but in the waste you create the product you consume and the progress you fight against. I don't generally blame consumers because there is need for system wide change but individuals who shift the blame away and distract from reality can carry it cause why shouldn't you except responsibility for your contributions to this problem and your continued failure to act in resolving it
@@xvdd1the more I think about it the more I realise it is your fault actually it's entirely your fault it's because of you this is happening you are the cause of this problem you ruined the rivers and killed the birds and chopped down the hedge rows and now look at the problems that's caused it's definitely you and it's definitely because you that we have this problem
electric cars are being bought in huge numbers; go sit by the entrance road to your favourite supermarket for an hour or 2 & you will see huge numbers of electric cars, the home-delivery vans are mostly electric too.
@@alanhat5252 ... Hardly large numbers, by the end of August 2023 there were around 850,000 electric cars in the UK, that's approximately 7% of road vehicles in Britain.
It can not be resolved in universal suffrage democracies where women dominate voting. Men can't put their subjects down anymore, traditionally they are his property. Along with bias child custody and support laws, it is also womens rights, human rights, immigration rights.
It makes me sad to see this as I grew up in the country. Plus, I am the grandson and great-greandson of farmers and fishermen too, so I am acutely aware of the state of nature. In Greater London, where I live, I notice this year for the first time, the lack of swallows and incests this year and it was pronounced too. WE need the right people in place and right qucik too.
With the amount of council tax and other green taxes we pay its quite confusing how the matter is getting worse. I thought the more money you throw at something the better it gets? Seems the opposite on our island. Maybe we shud make the animals pay us and that should reverse the issue.
That is very true even bit depressive. We hope innovative UK's company like EMERALD RESEARCH will expand in Green tech to reduce the impact of chemicals for agriculture....
Chris Packham is absolutely right. We need to make the government change farming policies. Farmers themselves have heen fighting for nature for many years but successive governments have literally railroaded over it. 💚🌻🌳🐇🕊️
It's terrifying. I recommend a book called Rooted by Sarah Langford - about how regenerative farming can restore biodiversity - it's an explanation of how we got here, and of what can be done to reverse the damage - life can come back, but not once species are extinct of course... Also, people need to encourage biodiversity in their gardens and stop paving over them. And everyone will benefit from taking a permaculture course, to find out what more you can do in your personal lives, and what change needs to be lobbied for.
Yes you've had a decade to change already and the only thing you say is that you're gradually scaling back?... are you serious? What is wrong with you governments 🤦🏻♀️ delaying the only thing to help the world
Another thing that isn't talked about that contributes to wildlife loss are outdoor cats. But if you say this loudly the British will get mad, since to most of them care more for cats than for wildlife (even though cats are exposed to all sorts of dangers outside). In fact its so normalized they have that stupid and outdated law of "free to roam", which tells a lot. Pets shouldn't be more important than wildlife.
Sorry, didn’t Keir Starmer break his word on his leadership promises, so how can we trust his word as PM? Why don’t these interviewers asked the tough questions?
@@oo5581 ... Yep, and have broke plenty of promises, five prime ministers, over 13 years in power, and the country is falling to bits. Conservative Britain is crumbling decaying Britain, plenty of wasted money but nothing to show for it at all.
They and lots of other unwelcome species: grey squirrels, harlequin ladybirds, box-tree moths, Asian hornets, Japanese knotweed, Himalayan balsam, ... the globalisation of trade has caused quite a few ecological problems for indigenous wildlife.
We’re one of the most nature depleted countries in the world. First to industrialise, small island, lots of people. Sure we have pretty green views outside of towns and cities, but there’s little there. A threadbare ecosystem.
@@martinwebb1681 the abundance that one was is vastly reduced sadly. Yes, some remain, but it’s depleted. Insect numbers have crashed by 70% since the 70’s. Here in sussex this time of year we used to be inundated with crane flies. Swarms of them. This year I have just seen one. On summer night time walks I used to see loads of glow worms dotted about. I haven’t seen one in over ten years. Dragonflies and damsels flies nearly vanished. Stag beetles gone. I could go on and on. It’s depressing to see.
@@jimjiminy5836 ... We have loads of crane flies here in S.W. Lincolnshire (they come into the house constantly), and literally thousands of Dragonflies of different varieties, blue ones, red ones, green ones, the yellow and black ones and brown ones in abundance. Damselflies also but in lesser numbers than the dragonflies. Also plenty of bees. But you are correct about the glow worms.
While we (the UK) are extracting less fossil fuels for energy production, we are also importing more year on year over the last few years with a grossly large increase since 2021 with natural gas being increasingly popular year-on-year since 2010. These are figures recorded by the ONS. Therese Coffey is an absolute weapon and does not have the slightest clue what she is talking about. We are not reducing fossil fuel usage - we are becoming more reliant on it.
Too many people living in such a small place with poor infrastructure and regulation. With increasing and unlimited population growth, housing needs etc what can we do?! If we stop immigration we’re racist. If we demand better sewage control, we need more treatment plants but at the expense of land. If I buy free range eggs I’m part of river pollution. If I buy battery eggs I’m supporting cruelty... too many people living in such a small place ...
Lord goldsmith & Chris Packham well said! the fracturing of both the tory party and the labour party at the moment is really highlighting the limitations of rhe 2 party system.
Another report: since the widespread introduction of 5G in UK urban and suburban areas, insect numbers are dramatically down. This summer for eg; no wasps and much fewer flies, ants and bees have been seen.
Insects have died off massively too in the last 20 - 25 years. Remember all the insects you'd see dead on the windscreen and front of cars. Hardly see any nowadays. It's called the windscreen effect. I've let my garden grow into a mini woodland / orchard with very minimal management and no use of pesticides or herbicide. It's teeming with insects and spiders. It's taken about 8 years for it to truly establish itself. It shows that if we leave nature alone it can recover. Yet just down the road fields are being ploughed up for housing developments. It's heartbreaking.
the numbers have been falling since the '50s & dramatically since Thatcher brought in Pinochet's Neoliberalism, decades before 5G was even a pipedream.
Its gone, the best we can hope for now is a stable planet, temperature wise, but I fear we will loose many things on that path. A heavy price will bd paid, it might be a good idea to start archiving many of species DNA for future resurrection purposes, like an ark of sorts.
You clearly lack any sensible amount of education, how can you say that if we have a housing crisis? There aren’t enough houses even for the local population, do the immigrants allow water companies to dump their sewage in our rivers, or opening new oil fields for extraction? Do you believe what you are commenting, if so god help us all. You are probably trying to convince me to vote the Reform Party. Don’t be a clown and blame everything bad on immigration.
How can you reduce climate change when you want to build another 130,000 new homes, When houses retain heat and warm the climate and your open border policy will mean even more homes on the green belt and increase pollution.
Most people will not make themselves and their families materially worse off to save the environment. In a democracy that means government will not resolve this.
No British Government in the last 50 years have done anything to look after any resident animal or human 😞
Mass migration is the issue here. We will end up with overrun cities and the chosen few in the countryside
@@krob2327 ... 🙄... Yeah lets blame the immigrants for all this, not the Government or industries that are responsible for it all.
look how the right-wing nutters react when Sadiq Khan is trying to save life's of Londoners. It isn't easy mate.
I am a birder and I am genuinely frightened. I remember a time in the 70s and 80s when common birds like house sparrows WERE common: they hopped along the streets looking for food and chirped in the hedges and on the roofs of houses; when swifts and house martins were so numerous they swooped near your face you could almost catch them - in LONDON! Where the dawn chorus was loud and taken for granted. Now, outside my window it is silent as the grave.
Biodiversity loss will lead to more economic loss. If the govt cares about the economy like they say they do, then they need to do something about reversing the loss of biodiversity. It really is scandalous.
This is what a mass extinction feels like. Entire food chains are failing. If you are scared, think about what your kids and grandkids will be feeling in 50 - 100 years.
Agreed
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Tony Heller twice as fast
Our gov doesnt run our country, wake up.
Specific to London, the misguided people complaining about ULEZ aren't helping either. Birds die in polluted air.
Fine words sir. Wood pigeons seem to be doing well in Manchester
This is terrifying truly shocking we need to protect our land and nature. Shocked and appalled.
We are in a mass extinction event. No chance for large animals.
Yes i am prepared to pay more money to fix the issue!
Maybe the government will remove all country dwellers into cities. All part of the NWO of the WEF. FEW OWN.
On a happier note, the disused land, a closed coal pit, behind my house was neglected for years until it became a landfill site for 13 years. The company and the farmer who had fields nearby slowly returned the wasteland - slag heaps - landfill site into an incredible nature reserve. 10's of 1000s trees planted. Beehives introduced. A nature trail. Fishing ponds, and so much more.
Little by little, inching along can turn things around. 🎉
Need to identify and congratulate the company and the farmer responsible, so that it encourages others.
Nice to hear mate 🙏
@@jonh9561 Lyme and Wood Country Park. The landfill company has gone. I think the farmer may be retired. I moved away almost 6 years ago but both the farmer and the recycling company were always great folk.
Tories have destroyed our beautiful country.
@zen7349 Laugh it up Tory troll, your time is up!
Absolutely. 1.2m people moved here last year on their watch.
@@noogate2672thanks to Blair policies
@@mgm9437 Blair could only dream of doing what they have. They're all owned by the same people. You need to wake up.
@@AA-id8yp the _route_ of HS2 is _entirely_ Tory, that's why it goes through so many places which were supposed to be protected from building.
What great news you’re building a massive railway all the way through the countryside then eh?
Thousands of houses built on critical green belt land Thames Water pumping millions of tons of sewerage into rivers and sea
sewage from millions of illegal immigrants
I think the government should ensure the over 1 million empty homes are utilised rather than build all these new developments. Even when empty, old houses will last longer than most of the shoddy new builds.
That is very true.
Just appalling, if you vote tory you are condoning this distruction.
Therese Coffey mentioned part of the problem when she said that the government had to balance the needs of the environment with building affordable homes for young people. We seem to be hooked on population growth, and disproportionately in the Southeast, where wildlife degradation is some of the worst. If we had a stable population we could largely recycle housing land, and not have to intensify agriculture continually in order to keep up.
The loss of birds hasva lot to do with the loss of mixed farming in the UK.
When we farmed the land properly by having 5 year lays.
5 years grass, Then 5 years arable the land had muck put back into it. It gave the soil body and it had life, insects etc .
The birds would come and feed of the insect and undersoil worms etc. Seagulls used to follow the ploughs , Not anymore and the soil has lost its body its dry , nothing and has to be fed by artificial fertiliser which does nothing for the soil. Membership of the EU has been largely responsible. The triple AAA rule finshed mixed farming in the UK. The big agro fertiliser have very strong lobbies within the EU,WEF and World bank.
We need a return to mixed farming to build body back into the soil.
We will then get back the worms and insects etc which will bring back the birds.
As a small farmer ive seen the changes and if we can see the problem why can't anyone else?
Having looked into it you're right. I have to acknowledge the EU Common Agricultural Policy hasn't been beneficial for the environment nor has it help reduce emissions and it didn't encourage farmers down a less polluting pathway, instead encouraging more intensive farming methods over decades which has helped usher in the decline in biodiversity...You know it's really odd. I regularly listen to The Archers, a rural drama on BBC radio 4. But to my knowledge there's been no mention of the climate crisis, or of Brexit, of the Australian trade deal, or farming practices and its impacts, or of the cost of living crisis and how farms are struggling to survive. Every now and then they mention rewilding, but that's about it: it's a if there isn't an environmental crisis. I know it's only a drama; even so I expect it to deal with the issues of the real world. Instead, Ambridge seems like a closed off community from the everyday realities of the wider society.
….’ the soil has lost its body’…
As a farmer you have touched the heart of the matter.
Can you persuade your farming colleagues to think and act in the same manner?
Alex Thomson is to be congratulated for his reports on UK environment.
Getting chemicals out of farming would be beneficial to everyone - human, wildlife, plants and soil alike!
20 years I've lived next door to a sheep/cattle farm - and this year they've ploughed up the field next to me and planted it with rapeseed.
Twice me and my husband have been doused with a fog of chemicals, and we know that the Glyphosate will be coming next Summer. I have a field full of fruit plants, all grown organically - and that will end thanks to this farmer's GM crop. Those of my plants that don't get killed off will be polluted.
This farmer hasn't given the least thought as to how his chemicals affect his neighbours, or their land (I've already had to deal with devastating contamination from herbicides before).
But then the farmers in my neighbourhood show very little regard for the environment generally: plastic sheets and bags polluting streams, a tractor engine in the river, sacks of dead lambs left in a lay-by, old drums of agricultural chemicals dumped in the woods, coils of barbed wire left to rust in ditches and woodlands, feed buckets left to blow around the countryside until UV rays make them brittle and fall apart.
Farmers seem to be as bad at littering the land as fishermen are at littering the sea.
Farms should at least be inspected for their commitment to environment and to ensure that neighbouring properties are safeguarded from their activities.
@@Skylark_Jones the EU was made aware of this a while ago & the Common Agricultural Policy now has a timeline of changes every year to improve the situation, we have seen fields paid to be left fallow, neonicotinoids banned & hedges & borders of fields expanded. Since Brexit this has accelerated but the UK government haven't kept pace.
Because the EU is democratic (strangely, Mrs Thatcher improved this) election voting practices make a huge difference, the lobby groups have huge budgets to get MEPs sympathetic to their causes elected, we saw this with the UK delegation being swamped by UKIP & far fewer Green MEPs (though the Greens did a brilliant job, Molly Scott-Cato in particular was a joy to watch). Farage was on the Fisheries Committee but didn't actually attend a meeting.
Other countries have their own right/left, lobbyist/uncorrupt balances & it's mostly about how politically engaged their electorates are.
@@Skylark_Jones The Archers was set up during WWII to give farmers weather forecasts & to broadcast Government policies but recently the Government propaganda it disseminates has been less useful.
I live in Ireland and it is worse here. I lament that lack of any regard for the environment. It is really bad here.
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Yes it's appalling here
90 per cent of wildlife has gone in my garden, Cambridgeshire uk
No mention of 12 million extra people in 20 years !!!
Not unexpected, HS2 carved through 16 ancient woodlands thanks Boris. Should have been stopped before it got underway. Train fees on HS2 will be subsided by other train routes.
That seems to have been the point, ancient woodlands, SSSIs, AONBs marshland, heathland & everything else opened to development. Road schemes in surprising places too.
I will vote for the Greens again and hope they get enough votes.
Good thing its the same day as granting the biggest oil drilling licence in UK history. Thatll help
Mono crop agriculture is killing this planet, bring back regenerative farming
I live in Snowdonia and even here I’ve seen serious decline in bird life
I loose count of the Dead Sea birds on my local beaches
Bird flue? Wind farms? Sewerage? I suspect all
I'm a Brit living in a small mountain valley in British Columbia. The changes out here are stark, very little insects now, I walk my land each morning & there's no spider webs anymore, the bird population has completely changed. The road kill has disappeared ( fewer bears& dear).
I have a basalt cliff 900' high that now has rockslides. We had a wildfire sweep through Aug 18 start, it took 5 wks of helicopters & bulldozers to end it. This WILL come your way.
@stevegregson4357 does wind farms kill birds, I’d be interested to know where I can find data on this? Cheers
@@sarahp007 Bird deaths caused by humans
CAUSE OF BIRD DEATH | ALL BIRDS | CONTRIBUTION TO TOTAL HUMAN-RELATED BIRD DEATHS
1 Cats (feral) 79,600,000 1 in 2.3
2 Cats (domestic) 54,880,000 1 in 3.4
3 Power line collisions 16,810,000 1 in 11.1
4 Buildings (houses) 16,390,000 1 in 11.4
5 Road vehicle collisions 9,814,000 1 in 19
6 Harvest (game birds) 2,817,000 1 in 66.2
7 Buildings (low, mid & high rise) 1,317,130 1 in 141.5
8 Commercial forestry 887,835 1 in 210
9 Power electrocutions 184,300 1 in 1,011.6
10 Agriculture (haying & mowing) 135,400 1 in 1,376.9
11 Communication tower collisions 101,500 1 in 1,836.7
12 Wind energy collisions 13,060 1 in 14,275
13 All other 3,479,328 1 in 53.6
14 Total 186,429,553 100
Annual human-related causes of avian deaths, Canada. Adapted from Table 3, Avian Conservation and Ecology 8(2): 11.
@@sarahp007 yes, wind turbines kill birds - an average of 1.3 deaths per turbine per year in high-fatality areas like the south of Spain near Gibraltar which is a migration route from Africa right up to Russia.
The carnage on our highways is heartbreaking. Dead animal carcasses lying on the roadsides is terrible.
Only 2700 views in 1 hour, this needs spreading far and wide!
Criminal negligence ...
These Tory parasites should be prosecuted for their inaction.
October 2021 Tory MPs voted to ditch EU clean waters law. 17 May 2023 "Water bosses issue grovelling apology after millions of tons of sewage dumped in Britain’s rivers and coasts"
5 Aug 2023 "Fifty-seven swimmers fall sick and get diarrhoea at world triathlon championship in Sunderland"
1 Oct 2023 "Competitors report falling ill after triathlon event in waters of river Eden. Investigation begins as people complain of diarrhoea and vomiting after swimming in Hever Castle’s lake."
And yet .... a variety of wild immigrant still thrives
At least we'll have more oil & gas from "Rosebank" 💀
A fifth gone since the 70s. How much had we lost in the 100 years before that?
We have shred the delicate web of life and we will now reap what we have sown…Extinction.
Then the Earth can recover. 🤞
Any one who has grown up on a green belt area like I have done. Will know, see, and sence and what's happening. It's heart breaking 💔
The House Martins used to nest in my workshop every year. Where have they gone?
Living in the country all my 70 years I have noticed since covid the local birds seem to spend more time on roofs , telephone wires and even the road than flying.Insects (apart from midges) are very rare too.
Yes, mosquitoes are thriving in Thurrock too, which is worrying considering how many ports we have with foreign boat crews carrying foreign diseases for the mosquitoes to spread.
Rats are thriving too.
@@alanhat5252 ... Yeah, plenty of rats in parliament.
@prideofdurham4776 ... Plenty of insects around, dragonflies, butterflies, ladybirds, beetles and spiders are plentiful, even though some varieties are becoming rarer or extinct.
Too many humans!!!
Nature dies the danger is, we die too ...
There are too many humans on this earth, everyone wants food, clean water, sanitation, a home, etc. This all comes at a price, a price paid for by nature. Time for a serious rethink on human population figures.
And how about open borders? A city the size of Wolverhampton will have to be built each year to accommodate the new arrivals flooding into the country. I wonder if any of the legacy / corporate media will provide analysis on this and the impact it will have on nature? We already have 70m on this tiny island
HS2 chewed through 13 ancient woodlands!!!!
Sunak - But let’s not forget the five, ten, twenty-thousand pounds ordinary people will have to pay…
General Election please.
Humanity is the most ignorant and the biggest immediate danger to the world.
When will we start electing governments that are truly concerned with our and the our planets survival!?
Truthful answer ... never. Why? Because people when voting are generally greedy, selfish and self serving, also the people that always seem to end up in positions of authority and power are self serving heartless individuals.
I wonder how people with such little vision of the nature, the future end up in such important positions !
God plz save this animals and around the world they r part of our life we can’t live without them they r part of this univers,I really don't know what will happened in our life and the world if they r gone
Water Company greed, they really don't care.
So upsetting to see this
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Is it profitable to protect wildlife in the short term? Will it mean a stock market boom? Increased returns to hedge funds? Nope?
So it's pretty pointless to expect anything from the Tories then.
Exactly, apart from lip service that is.
Cats....we also need a cat cull
It is not just Britain, Australia is in a similar situation and other countries. The real cause is the exponential growth of population. It is people who cause pollution and the more dense they are and the faster they increase in numbers the greater the pressure they put on enviroment. The very environment that sustains the population. It is a catch 22 situation and conservation will always be a number of steps behind. The holy grail of economics is expansion and the basic unit is a person it is a no win situation.
I’ve been saying this for years . I’m developed countries we should know better and have a cap on the amount of children we have and work as a team . But unfortunately I’m some religions they just breed like animals then come to our countries. I dread to see what our future will be like
You don't think it's anything *_at all_* to do with your previous government & the backhanders they're getting?
@@oliverharris9567 It is not natural births that is the main driver for population growth in the UK but immigration last year net immigration was 606,600 clearly these numbers will have a significant effect on the infrastructure including sewage, food production, energy, housing the list goes on all of which will need long term investment to meet demand, they could of course cut immigration but that would not serve the pyramid scheme known as GDP.
@@xvdd1So how does that explain rainforests declining or coral reefs is it all those migrants living in the sea, don't be absurd it has nothing to do with immigration it's not even a population problem it's capitalism it's consumption it's what happens when money is detached from any real world metric and the notion of infinite growth is applied to a planet with very finite resources. Even housing in the UK it's profit not migrants there are thousands of vacant luxury apartments and houses just in London because of property banking and money laundering because of greed by the wealthiest individuals. You are literally blaming the least powerful and most economically deprived group for a problem caused by the wealthiest most powerful members of society. You're part of the problem too not just because you will stand there shouting "it's migrants' at anyone trying to resolve these problems, not just because you harbour and insulate people like Rishi Sunak and enable them to continue in their corruption but in the waste you create the product you consume and the progress you fight against. I don't generally blame consumers because there is need for system wide change but individuals who shift the blame away and distract from reality can carry it cause why shouldn't you except responsibility for your contributions to this problem and your continued failure to act in resolving it
@@xvdd1the more I think about it the more I realise it is your fault actually it's entirely your fault it's because of you this is happening you are the cause of this problem you ruined the rivers and killed the birds and chopped down the hedge rows and now look at the problems that's caused it's definitely you and it's definitely because you that we have this problem
Need to look at rise in rat population as a possible cause for some losses...they don't mind what they eat!
I'm a vegetarian but when I see the biodiversity in the grazing fields compared to the monoculture resets that are poisoned it is alarming
Wind farms onshore and offshore are decimating the seabirds around here
where?
Not correct. A lie being repeated so much, it's almost the truth!
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Tony Heller twice as fast
Great interviews. Thanks for making this team :) go green!
14:35 It's about nature, but he's talking about motor manufacturers. There's no competitive advantage if no one buys the product. It's absurd.
timestamp should be nearer 14:11
electric cars are being bought in huge numbers; go sit by the entrance road to your favourite supermarket for an hour or 2 & you will see huge numbers of electric cars, the home-delivery vans are mostly electric too.
@@alanhat5252 ... Hardly large numbers, by the end of August 2023 there were around 850,000 electric cars in the UK, that's approximately 7% of road vehicles in Britain.
Another thing to add to the list of things that won't be resolved. 😢
It can not be resolved in universal suffrage democracies where women dominate voting. Men can't put their subjects down anymore, traditionally they are his property. Along with bias child custody and support laws, it is also womens rights, human rights, immigration rights.
It makes me sad to see this as I grew up in the country. Plus, I am the grandson and great-greandson of farmers and fishermen too, so I am acutely aware of the state of nature. In Greater London, where I live, I notice this year for the first time, the lack of swallows and incests this year and it was pronounced too. WE need the right people in place and right qucik too.
😂 ... I think you meant to say insects, James.
@@martinwebb1681 Yeah, insects!! Silly me!
nobody cares! otherwise they would have done something about it!
Same could be said for many other failing services and problems in uk
I'll bet a huge majority of folks haven't even heard of Kalergi. NWO WEF? Spell that backwards.
With the amount of council tax and other green taxes we pay its quite confusing how the matter is getting worse. I thought the more money you throw at something the better it gets? Seems the opposite on our island. Maybe we shud make the animals pay us and that should reverse the issue.
Just import animals. Cheap and easy.
That is very true even bit depressive. We hope innovative UK's company like EMERALD RESEARCH will expand in Green tech to reduce the impact of chemicals for agriculture....
Remember this when voting time comes around.
Sad. Much loss.
Heartbreaking
Chris Packham is absolutely right. We need to make the government change farming policies. Farmers themselves have heen fighting for nature for many years but successive governments have literally railroaded over it. 💚🌻🌳🐇🕊️
Farmers with agriculture like cows are one of the leading causes of climate change
The water companies are a disgrace! They should be ashamed 😢 fine them - make them clean up
It's terrifying. I recommend a book called Rooted by Sarah Langford - about how regenerative farming can restore biodiversity - it's an explanation of how we got here, and of what can be done to reverse the damage - life can come back, but not once species are extinct of course... Also, people need to encourage biodiversity in their gardens and stop paving over them. And everyone will benefit from taking a permaculture course, to find out what more you can do in your personal lives, and what change needs to be lobbied for.
I recommend to stop eating meat or reduce it to once a week if you really care about the environment
Humans dong what we do best... destroy everything around us, we should be ashamed, i am 😪
All because of immigrants😡
Get rid of 5g
I'm COMPLETELY against all wildlife in Britain
Well, then you are entering a golden age👍
Yes you've had a decade to change already and the only thing you say is that you're gradually scaling back?... are you serious? What is wrong with you governments 🤦🏻♀️ delaying the only thing to help the world
Sorry, 13 years in power is still a journey of transition! WTF
Another thing that isn't talked about that contributes to wildlife loss are outdoor cats.
But if you say this loudly the British will get mad, since to most of them care more for cats than for wildlife (even though cats are exposed to all sorts of dangers outside).
In fact its so normalized they have that stupid and outdated law of "free to roam", which tells a lot. Pets shouldn't be more important than wildlife.
Sorry, didn’t Keir Starmer break his word on his leadership promises, so how can we trust his word as PM? Why don’t these interviewers asked the tough questions?
How can someone break a promise when that person isn’t even in power? You should ask the Conservatives that have been in power for 13 years.
@@oo5581 ... Yep, and have broke plenty of promises, five prime ministers, over 13 years in power, and the country is falling to bits. Conservative Britain is crumbling decaying Britain, plenty of wasted money but nothing to show for it at all.
Ecocide
American mink are devastating to the rivers as well
They and lots of other unwelcome species: grey squirrels, harlequin ladybirds, box-tree moths, Asian hornets, Japanese knotweed, Himalayan balsam, ... the globalisation of trade has caused quite a few ecological problems for indigenous wildlife.
We’re one of the most nature depleted countries in the world. First to industrialise, small island, lots of people. Sure we have pretty green views outside of towns and cities, but there’s little there. A threadbare ecosystem.
Plenty of insects and wildlife around, people just don't bother looking and enjoying it, far too busy on their phones and gadgets.
@@martinwebb1681 plenty? Barely anything compared to what it was a generation ago.
@@jimjiminy5836 ... Yes, plenty. The hedgerows, forests and heathlands are abundant with insects and wildlife.
@@martinwebb1681 the abundance that one was is vastly reduced sadly. Yes, some remain, but it’s depleted. Insect numbers have crashed by 70% since the 70’s. Here in sussex this time of year we used to be inundated with crane flies. Swarms of them. This year I have just seen one. On summer night time walks I used to see loads of glow worms dotted about. I haven’t seen one in over ten years. Dragonflies and damsels flies nearly vanished. Stag beetles gone. I could go on and on. It’s depressing to see.
@@jimjiminy5836 ... We have loads of crane flies here in S.W. Lincolnshire (they come into the house constantly), and literally thousands of Dragonflies of different varieties, blue ones, red ones, green ones, the yellow and black ones and brown ones in abundance. Damselflies also but in lesser numbers than the dragonflies. Also plenty of bees. But you are correct about the glow worms.
What a wonderful Country we have now
That MP is annoying... it's your environment too, dear.. stop bs'ing.
She is a lawyer.
"I don't think our children will be around to see these creatures for much longer"
While we (the UK) are extracting less fossil fuels for energy production, we are also importing more year on year over the last few years with a grossly large increase since 2021 with natural gas being increasingly popular year-on-year since 2010. These are figures recorded by the ONS. Therese Coffey is an absolute weapon and does not have the slightest clue what she is talking about.
We are not reducing fossil fuel usage - we are becoming more reliant on it.
Too many people living in such a small place with poor infrastructure and regulation. With increasing and unlimited population growth, housing needs etc what can we do?! If we stop immigration we’re racist. If we demand better sewage control, we need more treatment plants but at the expense of land. If I buy free range eggs I’m part of river pollution. If I buy battery eggs I’m supporting cruelty... too many people living in such a small place ...
Lord goldsmith & Chris Packham well said! the fracturing of both the tory party and the labour party at the moment is really highlighting the limitations of rhe 2 party system.
Another report: since the widespread introduction of 5G in UK urban and suburban areas, insect numbers are dramatically down.
This summer for eg; no wasps and much fewer flies, ants and bees have been seen.
Insects have died off massively too in the last 20 - 25 years. Remember all the insects you'd see dead on the windscreen and front of cars. Hardly see any nowadays. It's called the windscreen effect.
I've let my garden grow into a mini woodland / orchard with very minimal management and no use of pesticides or herbicide. It's teeming with insects and spiders. It's taken about 8 years for it to truly establish itself. It shows that if we leave nature alone it can recover.
Yet just down the road fields are being ploughed up for housing developments. It's heartbreaking.
the numbers have been falling since the '50s & dramatically since Thatcher brought in Pinochet's Neoliberalism, decades before 5G was even a pipedream.
Plenty of bees, dragonflies, butterflies, flies, ants, spiders, gnats around ... but you're right about wasps, I have hardly seen any at all.
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Tony Heller scientists are alarmed
Down with the Tories! 🇬🇧❤
Its gone, the best we can hope for now is a stable planet, temperature wise, but I fear we will loose many things on that path. A heavy price will bd paid, it might be a good idea to start archiving many of species DNA for future resurrection purposes, like an ark of sorts.
Building too many houses for over population by immigration.
You clearly lack any sensible amount of education, how can you say that if we have a housing crisis? There aren’t enough houses even for the local population, do the immigrants allow water companies to dump their sewage in our rivers, or opening new oil fields for extraction? Do you believe what you are commenting, if so god help us all. You are probably trying to convince me to vote the Reform Party. Don’t be a clown and blame everything bad on immigration.
Cringe
161 likes. Planet's a goner, not worth trying to save it
The only thing that’s changed that rich people getting richer before they lose their fossil fuels.
various allien species on our coastal areas near hastings - is that a crayfish nasty ... snip
Hardly surprising when we admit more and more migrants into a grossly crowded country, the most crowded in Europe
How can you reduce climate change when you want to build another 130,000 new homes, When houses retain heat and warm the climate and your open border policy will mean even more homes on the green belt and increase pollution.
Waaay too many people!
Seen the skies lately too? Stop blaming us.
Mushrooms this year are dire too just earthballs everywhere even with the right conditions
Ditch dairy and free range beef. More rewinding and more house building each with their own garden plot to grow veg!
Bring the Brown Bear and the Wolf back!
We have beaver 🙂
I like your thinking woody...less people would be a good thing!!.🤣🤣
Where is the Green Party’s voice in all this? Come on Channel Four!
NOTHING to do with ME ! Not my doing . Profits before life Britain
Most people will not make themselves and their families materially worse off to save the environment. In a democracy that means government will not resolve this.
How does funding a private oil company to sell oil onto a global market help with energy security?
K A L E R G I P L A N
Let's keep increasing our population by 1 million people every two years 🎉
Never discussed... just never discussed... joke media
This is like decade old news