Ben Webster,
Environment Editor
March 21
2019, 12:01am, The Times
Wildlife
campaigners have ripped down nets covering trees and hedges in a backlash
against a practice being used by developers to prevent birds nesting.
More than
24,000 people in the past two days have signed a petition on the parliament
website calling for netting hedges to be made a criminal offence. The petition
organisers say that the practice “threatens declining species of birds,
presents a danger by entrapment to wildlife and produces large amounts of
plastic waste”.
Developers
sometimes cover trees and hedges to ensure that nesting birds do not delay their
building plans.
