Londons House sparrows: Cambridge Road Estate
Cambridge Road Estate Correspondents Lyse Doucet and Martha Kearney covering the Israeli elections on this morning's 'Today' programme, were surprised as listeners 'Twittered in' comments regarding the house sparrows chirruping in the background. It lifted spirits to hear happy chattering, a sound once common in all our gardens. We have lost 12 million house sparrows since the 1970's. Populations continue to be fragile in some London boroughs, due to the fast pace of development and the amount of Total Footprint developments council's have been prepared to accept, in order to achieve their housing targets. Some councils have taken their legal obligations more seriously see February's post -house-sparrows in Ilford but as kingston-enters-anthropocene on many environmental fronts we need some assurances that there won't be any more losses of colonies, such as at the former gasholder site opposite Sainsbury's, and the Cam...