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Sod’s law: what can two turf swaps 40 years apart tell us about Britain’s biodiversity crisis?
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In 1983, David Nash dug up a section of Kensington Gardens and swapped it with Welsh grassland. Four decades later, Mike Perry’s reverse swap revealed a striking reversal in the fortunes of urban and rural nature In 1983, an open-topped truck unloaded an unusual cargo in Kensington Gardens: 83 hunks…
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Sod’s law: what can two turf swaps 40 years apart tell us about Britain’s biodiversity crisis?
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