{"id":47121,"date":"2017-03-08T01:42:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T18:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-decking-drove-wildlife-from-the-city-letters\/"},"modified":"2017-03-08T01:49:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T18:49:05","slug":"how-decking-drove-wildlife-from-the-city-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-decking-drove-wildlife-from-the-city-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"How decking drove wildlife from the city | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nPatrick Barkham\u2019s remarks on garden decking and wildlife loss (Notebook, 7 March) chime with research we undertook on the changes to garden vegetation in London over an eight-year period. We found that between 1998-99 and 2006-07, 3,000 hectares of vegetation disappeared from gardens, replaced by hard standing and decking. This loss, equivalent to 2.5 Hyde Parks each year, was compounded by the loss of 1m trees from gardens.\u00a0 This period of change coincided with Ground Force\u2019s time on television.\u00a0Whether or not decking is now the culprit in gardens it once was, there\u2019s evidence that artificial lawns \u2013 largely made from fossil fuels \u2013 are becoming the \u201cnew black\u201d, again to the detriment of wildlife and the city\u2019s ability to adapt to climate change.Mathew FrithDirector of Conservation, London Wildlife Trust\u2022 Join the debate \u2013 email guardian.letters@theguardian.com Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/mar\/07\/how-decking-drove-wildlife-from-the-city\" target=\"_blank\">How decking drove wildlife from the city | Letters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Patrick Barkham\u2019s remarks on garden decking and wildlife loss (Notebook, 7 March) chime with research&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-cg1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38767,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/my-wildlife-garden-one-year-on\/","url_meta":{"origin":47121,"position":0},"title":"My wildlife garden: one year on","date":"December 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r While her friends were out celebrating, Kate Bradbury spent last Christmas keeping the woodlice company in her new wildlife garden. 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