Lowestoft is blessed with a wide range of wildlife. Throughout our parks and open spaces, Lowestoft Town Council is always looking at ways to care for our wildlife by creating new habitats and ensuring that developments are sympathetic to the needs of local wildlife. These efforts aim to reserve the decline in numbers of our local wildlife.
What can we do to help?
The Wildlife Trusts suggests calling on the government to set an ambitious target of reducing the use of harmful chemicals and pesticides, this would be a step in the right direction to protect insects from vanishing within our community.
Establishing a Nature Recovery Network by creating insect-friendly habitats in gardens, parks, and open spaces, to ensure the survival of these beings. This will safeguard not only insects but other wildlife within the community. As part of Lowestoft Town Council’s Earth Protector Town Declaration, the Town Council endorse and support the campaign to call ecocide (s serious loss, damage or destruction of ecosystems, and includes climate and cultural damage) a crime.
With the Town Council’s mission to rapidly progress the improvement of our parks and open spaces, we understand that if these areas are managed in a wildlife-friendly way they can become nature havens for insects and wildlife alike.
Structural diversity, meaning the relative degree of diversity or complexity of vegetation in a habitat area, is crucial to wildlife habitats. The variety of trees, plants, and foliage cater to the lifestyles of wildlife, ensuring that insects can hide, feed, and live within the same radius. This is something to consider when planting and/or creating wildlife-friendly spaces for these creatures in our gardens and parks.
