We welcome any tales of Planning Officers serving their own convenience and that of consultants (like the ones on the right) rather than the over-arching Biodiversity Objective as all Local Planning Policy requires. We want Nature, not Numbers.
Ecologists should be well rewarded for using their knowledge positively, as they dreamt of doing when they started their careers. But the present system uses them as negative data-gatherers and they have got used to this way of life.
Global warming is happening.
It can be slowed but not reversed.
Species exinction is happening.
Biodiversity loss unrelated to global warming can be reversed. It isn't. The problem isn't the will, it's the way.
So much diversity in plants, animals and birds is still hiding in plain sight. It's not just in 'unspoiled' places like this, it's in towns and suburbs, and it could be much more. The built environment is one of the richest environments for British nature.