Hate to be pedantic, but quoting an exerpt from an article doesn't mean that's the sum total of the subject matter. The article is about birds and bird feeders, and woodpeckers are birds.

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Indeed. It's a strong pattern of resentment for all life on Earth that doesn't directly generate profit.
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The latest in Labour's full-scale war on nature.
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Nope, Bill Gates is just a greedy billionaire whose interest in the climate crisis was only ever a means of feeding his messiah complex.

We live in such a ridiculous country dominated by hysterical, anally retentive dullards who are terrified by the prospect of wildlife.

This is completely incoherent. In the real world, switching to plant-based diets could reduce agricultural land use by around 75%.
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Actually, that explains it pretty well. A third of the habitable land is an extraordinarily disproportionate share, relative to the dietary contribution it makes. It's the leading cause of habitat destruction globally.
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Well that's good, because livestock farming barely leaves room for basic ecology.

Most countries do, especially if they prioritise free trade. Many of the recent tree pests and diseases afflicting Britain, for instance, resulted from the international trade in plants, and were introduced via Europe because that was where we traded with the most until Brexit.