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A COMMON lament about these isles is that we lack the tree cover of Continental Europe. However, we have signature habitats, such as heath, which are scarce, even non-existent, abroad. Also,), we are rather well endowed with this habitat. England’s hedgerows alone extend to some 642,000km (nearly 400,000 miles). We probably have more hedges than anywhere else in the world. Lucky us.