The Wild Side of Town

摘要: In 1986, British broadcaster and environmentalist Chris Baines published the book “The Wild Side of Town”. The coincided with a popular BBC television series had major impact on people’s appreciation urban wildlife in Britain. wrote: green space towns cities is much more than simple, slightly degraded duplicate pre-war farmland. For great many species, town better place to live countryside ever was.” (Baines p. 29). Various studies have confirmed that areas often harbour perhaps surprisingly high variety species plants animals (e.g. Cornelis Hermy 2004; Gustavsson et al. 2005; Alvey 2006; Lorusso 2007; Nielsen 2014). An article Newsweek (Theil 2006) confirms there for nature even most urbanised area. It refers, example, research by Munich’s Technical University which found diverse habitats selected big any national park reserve. Berlin home two-thirds all bird Germany, while Zurich hosts ten times foxes, hedgehogs badgers per square kilometre surrounding countryside. Part explanation offer mosaic microclimates, from pond-filled gardens industrial brownfield sites and, course, city forests. Moreover, spaces large number exotic species. A study South-African towns, woody plant be alien McConnachie 2008).