England's hedges would go around Earth ten times (www.bbc.co.uk)

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England's hedgerows would stretch almost ten times around the Earth if lined up end to end.

That's according to a new map - the most comprehensive to date - of these historic features of the landscape.

Ecologists hope the data will lead to better protections for the much-loved lines of trees and shrubs that provide food and shelter for wildlife, and store large amounts of carbon.

Laser scanning from the air reveals a total of 390,000 km of hedges.

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[-] TheNumberOfGeese@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

They've made the data available here: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/d90a3733-2949-4dfa-8ac2-a88aef8699be

(It would have been nice had the news article added a link to the UK Environmental Information Data Centre, rather than hiding the originator half way down the article in plain text)

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