Monday, 17 February 2020

Waste Not: Want Not?

Thurrock Thameside Nature Park is a clear illustration of just how nature, given the chance, can recover (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/15/what-lies-beneath-the-nature-park-covering-up-a-dirty-secret-aoe). The scrub land reserve was once one of Europe's largest landfill sites, serving the London area. It is now home to adders, Carder bees, cuckoos and Water voles. All these (along with many other animals and plants) thrive with reportedly little evidence of its former function.

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