Message from Sustainability Matters Stafford

Good afternoon,

We have launched a questionnaire about managing road verges for wildlife (with road safety and pedestrian safety also in mind) and we wondered whether your parish council might share this if you have a Facebook presence?

Sadly, the UK is listed as the worst nation in the G7 for the volume of wildlife and wild spaces lost due to human activity, resulting in it being ranked twelfth worst of 240 countries and territories.

With over 97% of wildflower meadows destroyed since the 1930s, road verges are a vital refuge for bees, butterflies, birds, bats and bugs. The loss of biodiversity is one of the largest threats to our own survival and our verges could really help in our endeavours to make the UK richer in wildlife.

We would be very grateful if you might circulate this questionnaire and help us find out what the public appetite is for trialling pilot schemes around the county of Staffordshire.

You can fill in the quick questionnaire via this link here, and we are asking people to fill it in just once: https://bit.ly/3vfVIbo

Shropshire has started a great initiative and you may also want to take a look at how it is working there: https://youtu.be/BJpejshEqG4

Sustainability Matters Stafford Team.