Lost Nature – housing developers fail to deliver their ecological commitments.

A survey of new #HousingDevelopments reveals that developers are installing just half of the ecological features that they should be.

A Wild Justice report, written by researchers at the University of Sheffield, has revealed that #HousingDevelopers are not keeping legally-binding promises to help wildlife on housing developments.

A survey of nearly 6,000 #house across 42 developments found that only half of the promises to mitigate harm to #nature had been kept. Many ecological enhancements had simply not materialised, with 83% of Hedgehog highways, 100% of bug boxes, and 75% of both bat and bird boxes found to be missing from new developments.

The delivery of plant life across sites also painted a depressing picture: 39% of the #trees detailed on planting plans were missing or dead, and nearly half of the native #hedges that were supposed to be laid did not exist.

See below for full and summary reports:

https://wildjustice.org.uk/general/lost-nature-report/

#BioDiversity #BioDiversityLoss #building #builders #ecology #EcologicalEmergency