walking with the dogs today i was struck by the silence . Only the church bells tolled mournfully in the distance.
After an intensive few days busy on the fields, the wonderfull sounds of various ground nesting birds have yet again been prematurely silenced. The plovers, the skylarks, the yellowhammers, the oyster catchers and the curlew have again had there nest sites destroyed.
It happens every year, only each year there are less birds too be displaced. If we go on at this rate there will soon be nothing left.
On a positive note i saw my first 3 tired looking house martins on our walk. Over the last few weeks I have also seen some swallows, but nowhere near as many as there should be. also a worrying omen.
It is really going very badly for our natural world currently. It has never been worse as we attack it on every front. A sad war of attrition.
The news from the EC over a pesticide ban on certain types is very welcome news, but why did it take so long to act...almost at the point its too late to save insect populations.
why was this foul stuff ever allowed in the first place.? Why did we learn nothing from the DDT lesson? what other dangerous substances are we allowing to be pumped out into our precious world?
When will we truly learn that the modern utopia we have created is a precarious pack of cards
When the natural world falls, we fall with it. Its time to say enough. To act while we still can.
A good start would be a re examination of how we produce, and consume our food, because much evil is done in the name of its production..
Meanwhile lets rejoice at good news and hope the tide has begun to turn.