Cambridgeshire has only 3.3% woodland cover and only 0.69% ancient woodland as a percentage of total land area The woodlands that do survive are small and largely isolated from one another meaning that many woodland specialist species are effectively marooned on 'islands' in a sea of agricultural landscapes

Thread 👉 Centuries of deforestation then overgrazing by deer and sheep have left much of the Highlands of Scotland looking like this - what Frank Fraser Darling called a treeless 'wet desert' But as you see from the end of the clip some trees survived on ungrazed rocky ground where red deer can't reach. In this case the trees are rowan and eared sallow.

My 15 high-level takeaway messages for nature and climate from #Davos2020 - thread below 👇 1. A new ‘climate change economics’ is becoming mainstream but the speed of implementation is too slow and too meek. #Davos2020