Al Jazerra: The poet William Blake described Britain's landscape as a "green and pleasant land" but much of the countryside - from the mighty oak tree to the humble hedgehog - are at serious risk.
Conservation groups and scientists have warned in an alarming report that a staggering 60 percent of UK plant and animal species have declined in recent decades, while more than 10 percent are at risk of being lost entirely.
Intensive farming, sprawling urbanisation and climate change as well as an invasion of...