News Headline
How planting bioenergy crops could help stop Britain's brown hare from becoming extinct
Source
The Ecologist
Publication Date
2017-06-06
If you live or spend time in the UK countryside it may have been some time since you spotted the native brown hare - if you've ever seen one at all. That's because the hare relies on an increasingly disappearing biodiverse landscape for its food. LAURA BRIGGS talks to the scientists behind a new study investigating what type of planting - including bioenergy crops - will help stop hare populations from continuing to decline.