Our wildlife and countryside has changed enormously in my lifetime, with the population of some species of fur, feather, fin and fauna crashing while others have boomed beyond recognition. My father and grandfather both said the same, so perhaps this is just a typical old man’s moaning about the inevitable changes that ‘progress’ brings.
Humankind has added and removed species to our islands for more than 2,000 years. The Romans bought us the brown hare, pheasants, fallow deer and the domestic cat. They are blamed, too, for the introduction of the black rat, which indirectly wiped out much
