Destroying a natural habitat

vulpus vulpus: the urban fox often seen
in the Horizon grounds

Apart from the mature trees that the redevelopment team have deemed redundant, little has been said about the natural habitat that the small but invaluable green spaces of the school provide. Horizon, located across from Butterfield Green has constituted in many ways a 'natural' extension of the former in terms of sustaining the local wildlife. 

two tiny pipistrelles flying next to
the Horizon green area at Prince George Road

Many a spring night passers-by have seen foxes emerging from Butterfield Green and startled by the lights of passing cars run into the safety of the Horizon green area on Wordsworth Road. Or children have marvelled at the tiny frogs hopping near the little abandoned pond by Wordsworth Road. And, of course. the tiny pipistrelle bats dancing in the sky over the ash trees at Prince George Road at dusk every summer and then flying on towards Butterfield Green only to reappear a little later.

Too small, too insignificant? We do not think so. Perhaps their imminent consignment to oblivion is a sign of the times.