If we hope to restore nature and give it the protection needed, something really needs to be done about the resources allocated to the vital fight against biodiversity decline.
Without insects, birds, bees and trees, we all face extinction. And the continued piecemeal decimation of pockets of nature dotted all over the city amounts to a serious problem - whether at the hands of developers or public authorities.
I headed off to a council meeting at Lagans Lands East after what many judged as a serious error on the council’s part, when they cut down row of mature Hawthorne trees to ‘investigate’ where they might put a greenway connecting Belvoir Forest and the Lagan Gateway Project.
