“I have been a birder for over 65 years, for the first 40 years I noticed a small increasing decline in bird numbers, whether those on farmland/moorland/coasts and estuaries. For the last 25 years that decline has increased rapidly, to the point British natural history is approaching a point of catastrophe and in some cases it's passed that point. I'm not just talking about birds, it also involves plants/amphibians/mammals/insects and every other living thing on land the sea and even in the air of this Great British Isles. Something needs to be done urgently, not in 10 years, not in 5 years, it needs to be done tomorrow.”