What makes good sense to any sensitive, remotely aware human being, rarely translates into action however, for as you well know, good environmental practice and national economics hardly ever coincide. Until there is a financial or “comfort” reason for land use to change, the landowners and farmers will be unlikely to put it into effect.

What can we do? Become beekeepers, that would be a small contribution. Plant wildflowers in our gardens, mow the lawn less often.

The key issue is as you point out, overpopulation.