The manicured greens and fairways of golf courses are not famed for being biodiversity hotspots. But they could be. And one club, Llanymynech on the border of England and Wales, is showing the way.
Its edges are flower- and insect-rich limestone grassland that supports 30 butterfly species and forms part of a site of special scientific interest. But when sheep-grazing stopped 50 years ago, this meadowland became a dense thicket of sycamore, hazel and ash.
