Land drainage since the 1950s has had little impact on habitats or species diversity in the UK (?)?
My question relates to land drainage. This is a statement that I have to discuss and form an opinion on, but I am having trouble finding information on it. If anyone knows of anything please let me know, it would be a great help!
Could you give me a few pointers as to what I should include in this essay….I really do not know where to start?! Thank you
first of all, is that land drainage statement true? where did you get that from. a good place to start would be according to the blank blank blank land drainage etc.
Personally, it doesn’t sound right to me
anything humans do to the layout of the land effects habitats. mostly people drain land in order to build on the land or to use it for mono cropping/farming. it is becoming well known that any type of farming to do with the meat industry has a direct effect on the environment/habitats and where farming is concerned you desecrate the land you desecrate the wildlife. also cropping means spraying which is always bad. are you writing about a specific area? it’s a very broad statement on land drainage. this answer is a very narrow spectrum as i don’t know too much about this.
Land drainage has changed a lot in some parts of the UK, and elsewhere not at all. Dig for facts on which areas, and what happened to the habitats.
Hint: species diversity has severely declined in UK since the 1950s – where? why? what other factors beside drainage played a roll?
Dig up loads of examples – arrange them in a table sorted by the size of the impact (or by amount of drainage) – try to show whether the changes are a continuous spectrum or an on/off switch.
Grants were available for a long time to farmers who wished to drain their land. The results of uncontrolled land drainage have been disastrous for many plants such as the Cuckoo Flower ), Marsh Marigold , Marsh Orchid and so on. And of course, there has been a decline in the insects which depend upon plants of wet meadows. Local Wildlife Trusts are attempting to buy or exercise management of the precious areas of un drained pasture which remain. There are great efforts currently being put into the re-establishment of fens in the east of England and you could do a web search for ‘Great Fen Project’.