MORE WILDLIFE MADE HOMELESS

We see but grey where once was green As bulldozers now scrape, Turning a joyful rural scene Into joyless landscape. The area was green-belt land With forest and pasture But as our numbers still expand We will invade nature. And so that farmland must give way To high profit housing. Farming that land has had its day. Let the plunder begin. First rip up each ancient hedgerow, Take living loam away. Make space for luxury homes to go. The wildlife then must stray. Nests and burrows can play no part As man now owns this space. The construction work now can start And big profits then chase. Soon building projects in full swing. The stream that filled the pond Diverted to concrete piping In culvert underground. Aquatic habitats destroyed. Frogs, toads and newts homeless. Many wildlife species now void. But man could not care less.