Green and Pleasant Land: how do we stop nature’s decline?
Live debate: In a special report Channel 4 News reveals iconic species and habitats facing wipeout. What can we do to halt the decline? Watch our Google Hangout.
Forty-four million birds gone from our skies, 70 per cent of butterflies in decline, the hedgehog population slashed from 36 million in 1950 to just 1 million today.
These are the stark findings in a special report on the British countryside – Green and Pleasant Land – airing on Channel 4 News tonight at 7pm.
The RSPB has gone as far as saying British wildlife is “in crisis”. So what can be done?
We debated this via a Google Hangout live debate today, trying make sense of the shock figures via a panel of experts, our science editor and the reporter who made the findings in tonight’s film.
Watch the hangout and see what our experts had to say above.
Guests:
Tom Clarke – Channel 4 News science editor Rachel Seifert – Green and Pleasant Land reporter Grahame Madge, media officer, RSPB Michael Way, head of collecting and network support at Kew Gardens Les Stocker, Tiggywinkles founder