A poem from one of our members.

Scientists shout every day about species decline

Of wildlife corridors turning to severed lifelines

Government continually tries to starve our green lung

It's all progress they say, to climb the global economic rung

Housing ripens into green belt, we're told we need more

But who wants fruit that is rotten at the core?

Are councils blind to this or just on the fiddle?

We need community regeneration not Tesco and Lidl

We're told the solution to traffic is to build faster roads

Try telling that to the flattened hedgehogs, badgers and toads

One person cars and dwindling oil supplies

Is the car the future, or is this more capitalist lies?

The pace of development is getting us down

We work harder, faster, longer to earn that pointless pound

Green space is an irritant between home and material desire

We only return to our green roots when we burn out and retire

We don't work the land, we don't feed the birds

We dismiss the environmentalist rants as irrelevant words

What's in it for me? Why should I care?

There's plenty of green space - you're just trying to scare

Your role is minor, you've only one voice

But thousands like you make a powerful noise

You must think for our leaders who are just like us

They just need pulling off their blinkered political party bus

The one thing that should make you drive in a greener direction

Is your vote in your local council election

The people in power can turn decline around

But they'll stay buried in self interest if you don't make a sound

Wild places will survive millennia beyond electrical goods

See the video game of life playing out in the woods

Make your kids look deeply at a wild breathing creature

And you will save it from a dead end future