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Originally Posted by paul m
Probably the best uses of ex-industrial land for nature are gravel pits and quarries - but they generally survive because people don't want to build on them! Even these are used up in southern England - for instant the Grays Chalk Quarry in Essex was an island of invertebrate diversity but, like most of the Thames Corridor, it has gone or is going to roads and housing.
Not only are there losses of sites of interest but green corridors have been blocked. For instance the Lea Valley was an excellent north-south corridor for wildlife movement but is now blocked in several places - Blog: Latest photos: a lot's changed over the last four months - London 2012  |
What a coincidence! Just been reading the paper and found an interesting article about just the opposite as to what is happening in the London area.
In 1998 asbestos was found in the ground at Renkums beekdal, a dale which was formed during the last ice age. There were plans to build a business area there, (I know not exactly industry
), but because of the asbestos they have decided not to, but in stead to create a ecological corridor between two major nature areas of Holland; the Veluwe and the rivers in the south. They are going to place ecoducts over two nearby motorways to help the migration. They are hoping that in the long run the animals will start breeding with the species just over the border in Germany.
(I'm wondering though what they are going to do with the asbestos, can't imagine there is any point leaving it there, but if they are getting rid of it any way why have they changed the plans so drasticly...)