Dont forget the invertebrates!

Biodiversity is under threat. Human activity is driving the sixth great extinction and we are losing about 30,000 species per year.We have a historic opportunity not only to halt the degradation of our natural environment, but to begin to roll back two centuries of exploitation.

This is a massive issue, again a problem that we could address immediately by reducing pesticide use, promoting landscape conservation and getting rid of the non-elected Planning Commission, and ensure that sustainable development, not just economic development, is at the heart of the planning system.

I am suspicious that some decisions made locally against planning applications by Medway Council are done so in the full knowledge that it would be overturned by the Planning Commission and thus like Pontius Pilate, they are washing their hands of any responsibility.

Buglife is a charity which promotes knowledge of the smaller creatures that inhabit this blue (green) planet, they make an interesting point that most wasteland is not sterile. Look closely where nature has start to take over and you will see our indigenous species scurrying through the undergrowth.