The Independent reported that the U.K. Government will spend 7.5 million pounds to set up of 12 new Nature Improvement Areas (NIAs). The NIA’s are a change from just protecting existing areas to creating large habitat restoration and establishing wildlife corridors or ecological networks. The programs will involve local people and the funding will take place between now and 2015. Read more at Paradise restored: Coalition gives £7.5m to conserve nature hotspots – Nature – Environment – The Independent.
Posted by: Sandy Steinman | March 2, 2012
U.K. To Spend £7.5m to Create 12 Nature Improvement Areas
Posted in Environment | Tags: Nature Improvement Areas, Restoration ecology, wildlife corridors
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As the peoples of the world continue to overpopulate it, eventually (hopefully after I’m gone) those same peoples will vote to get rid of many of those nature hotspots. There’s only so much land, and with seven billion people now, it’s inevitable that there will be a nature/people conflict, and I see people winning, so to speak.
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