Road verges are my passion. They are unloved and functional places – yet Nature can thrive on them. While I don’t love the infrastructure we’ve created, verges are a brilliant example of how Nature doesn’t need things to be perfect. Wildlife is able to use these marginal spaces and there are many more – car parks, industrial estates, shopping centres, hospitals, roundabouts, schools and new developments add up to a huge area of untapped potential. If we changed our priorities and managed all of this for Nature, it would form a connected network of habitat to allow wildlife to move around the countryside ...
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