Declines in the biodiversity of pollinating insects and wild
plants have slowed in recent years, according to a new study.
Researchers led by the University of Leeds and the Naturalis
Biodiversity Centre in the Netherlands found evidence of dramatic reductions in
the diversity of species in Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands between the
1950s and 1980s.
But the picture brightened markedly after 1990, with a
slowdown in local and national biodiversity losses among bees, hoverflies and
wild plants.