Catching-up on my reading and came across these stories (which I’ve abridged), reported by Sue Everett in the February edition of ‘British Wildlife.’
From Environment Agency report on ecosystem services: Exmoor, where moorland rewetting by the blocking drainage ditches has reduced storm flows to 32% of the pre-restoration level, equating to approx. 8,000 cu metres per hectare per year across the 460ha of the project area. Boldventure, Devon: Some qualification of effects created by beavers. Beavers have constructed 13 dams holding up to 650,000 litres of additional water. This equates to 21.6 litres of surface-water storage per square metre of land. They also had a positive impact on water quality. See @AliDriverEA
H of C’s Climate Change Committee reported in 2012 that between 2001 and 2011, 200,000 homes were built on floodplains. Since 2011, the rate of building on floodplains has been at nearly twice that outside of floodplains. Currently, there are 9,000 homes planned to be built on areas that are partially or fully at risk from flooding.
Report from The Pasture-Fed Livestock Association showing that it is possible to finish livestock on grassland and semi-natural vegetation with no recourse to being fed cereal or manufactured feed and still produce a profit. See @PastureForLife