Labour to save hedges
Labour to save hedges
- 1999
- Sunday Times 21 March 1999, 13(1) .
New regulations to be announced in May will strengthen the current system of protection of hedgerows, and increase the number of protected hedges to around 40% of the total - twice as many as are protected at present. Since 1984 the length of hedgerows has fallen from 350,000 miles to less than 200,000.
COUNTRYSIDE
FARMING
HEDGEROWS
WILDLIFE HABITATS
New regulations to be announced in May will strengthen the current system of protection of hedgerows, and increase the number of protected hedges to around 40% of the total - twice as many as are protected at present. Since 1984 the length of hedgerows has fallen from 350,000 miles to less than 200,000.
COUNTRYSIDE
FARMING
HEDGEROWS
WILDLIFE HABITATS