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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Save a butterfly, grow honeysuckle
That's the headline advice from the Guardian in an article about the decline about the decline of butterfly species across Britain.

He said the worst hit counties had suffered a "double whammy" of being relatively flat and so suitable for farming as well as being in the south-east development boom. "[The extinctions are] the result of either urban spread, lack of woodland management or intensive farming practices. Sadly these counties in the east of England lack any serious hills which could have provided a refuge from the plough."

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