Hedgelands: A wild wander around Britain’s greatest habitat Marina Herlop These fair isles shelter a

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Hedgelands: A wild wander around Britain’s greatest habitat Marina Herlop These fair isles shelter aHedges or hedgerows have long been an integral part of the British landscape. An ancient, human made boundary, hedgerows have become a critically important haven for wildlife and are now being recognised as one of the greatest edge habitats on Earth. Britain boasts 400,000 kilometres of hedgerows, but has lost 50 per cent of them since the Second World War and their slow deterioration today is becoming a huge threat to the ecosystem. In Hedgelands,