From an ecological standpoint, which land is the most valuable in your region?
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The farm land surrounding us, 2 thousand of acres at a guess are owned by one family. Their ownership prevents the local town and our nearest village from being joined together by commercial/residential building. Similarly their ownership of their land near ours prevents residential building in a much sought after area. Other landowners have sold parcels of land and lots of wildlife habitat has been lost even in the few years we have been here.
From an ecological standpoint, although this land is far from perfect, it offers a massive wildlife habitat. There are some very small areas of wood, they are planting new mixed native hedging. There are ponds. They support a wider range of flora and fauna than any housing development would. We see deer, pheasants, stoats, moor hens, snakes, barn owls, foxes etc etc. It is at risk because the family are aging and the land is becoming increasingly desirable for housing.
peat bogs in ireland are valuable in flora and fauna and are being exploited by hungy aged power stations at an alarming rate
THE FRICKIN LAND THAT I'M LIVING ON AS I SPEAK. Very fertile, and one of the few areas in Canada with deciduous forests. But the GTA just won't stop expanding! I know we need to do this since there are more people, but it's getting a little too ridiculous. For instance, they are building a Shoppers Drug Mart on this TINY lot of land beside Agincourt Mall. I looked at it and I was completely shocked!
The place where I live. Everyone else can look after themselves.
Our waterways are ecologically the most valuable, the most fragile and at the same time the most likely to come under threat by development and the by-products of it. The Australian continent has had a fresh water crisis since Europeans invaded it 200 years ago. Prior to that invasion, the country was farmed sustainably. for 40,000 years.
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