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More, bigger, better an
Healthy for wildlife, healthy for people
You might ask why nature needs to recover in to function more naturally. And that would
the first place. The answer is that our three benefit not just wildlife, but all of us as well.
counties have suffered 70 years of habitat
destruction. New houses and roads have Large-scale scientific studies show that
gobbled up land. And there are 100,000 more nearby nature makes us happier, healthier,
homes to come in this area. Unsustainable and more relaxed. It’s hardly surprising; after
farming has depleted soils, wiped out a lot of all we have evolved to feel secure in resource-
our wildlife and made flooding worse. rich environments.
We can’t put all this damage right, but there So what would it be like, living near a
are many places left where small changes in nature restoration area?
management would allow large areas of land
Farmed land
Wildlife sites Ecosystem
services
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