Nearly two million acres of British grassland lost in 25 years https://t.co/8W9ALuNxry— The Independent (@Independent) July 9, 2020
The UK Centre of Ecology and Hydrology found that between 1990 and 2015:
Across Britain overall, an area of grassland around the size of Dorset (2,505 sq km) and arable farmland almost the size of Bedfordshire (1,121 sq km), were built on with houses, roads and other infrastructure.
