Vast areas of Welsh coastal habitat lost since Industrial Revolution

Vast areas of Welsh coastal habitat lost since Industrial Revolution

Photo Richard Unsworth Mark Mansfield Three centuries of industrialisation have left large parts of Wales’s coastline and estuaries so heavily altered that modern conservation efforts are effectively working from a “blank ecological canvas”, according to new research. The study, led by researchers at Swansea University, examined the historical transformation of Welsh coastal environments and found that nearly 80% of the nation’s estuaries have u…