Is Holm Oak invasive in the UK?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I think if a real shift in climate is a reality, we are going to inevitably have to accept a shift also in the distribution of varying flora and fauna. Different species will come into dominance, but is that always a terrible thing?

 

These things have been in constant flux since the dawn of time. There has to come a point where we change our way of life to meet the changing environment, and desist in attempting to bend nature to our will of what we think the 'status quo' ought to be

 

I agree, increasingly so as I mature and understand the tides of ecology.

 

I think there may be a very fine line between conservation and hindrance to ecology. I do love an ancient woodland full of bluebells and other wild flowers we have come to associate with the british landscape but I sometimes wonder if the many pathogens on the rise and tree declines are trying to tell us something we are choosing to not hear.

[Parker]

I think there may be a very fine line between conservation and hindrance to ecology. I do love an ancient woodland full of bluebells and other wild flowers we have come to associate with the british landscape but I sometimes wonder if the many pathogens on the rise and tree declines are trying to tell us something we are choosing to not hear.

 

I agree with this, sometimes I think that we try and change nature to what we believe is right but actually we are stopping the natural processes that should be taking place.

 

There is a fine line between conservation and preservation - do we support the wildlife that is establishing itself or try and keep it exactly how we want to by creating artificial habitats and destroying everything else.