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Re:75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass ... by chewz on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @11:12PM (#15505212)
Large areas had been meliorated (in 70-ties in my country Poland) so the meadows are gone for good outside of some protected areas.

All these wild weeping willow which had been a signature of Masovian landscape and which I still remember from childhood visits to family farm died soon thereafter. So did the frogs. It is like coming to different country now.

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Re:75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass ... by mantas on Thursday October 19, 2017 @03:32AM (#15506086)
Same in Lithuania. Although it's not as permanent as you might think. In 90s many state farms went under and huge portions of land was left to it's own devices. By 00s, many of them turned into grass with wild flowers, tiny trees, and everything Wherever melioration failed, it was slowly nearing meadow-like conditions. Now big portions of it are used again either for agriculture or housing...
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