Threats To Heathland
- Change in farmland in particular afforestation
- Fire
- Lack of management (overgrown), for example scrub and bracken encroachment
- Housing development
- Quarrying
- Nutrient enrichment (often dog faeces)
- Pine and Silver birch readily establishing and shading the surrounding vegetation
- Ploughing
- Predatory cats (urban heathland sites)
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