Poultry farms are havens for wildlife

Trees planted on poultry farms in the UK are providing considerable benefits for biodiversity as well as improving the health and welfare of free-range hens and providing a price premium for farmers. Those are the findings of a five-year study carried out by the Woodland Trust on 9 farms supplying the Cumbrian-based The Lakes Free Range Egg Company. During that time, numbers of birds, butterflies, moths and bats were studied during the spring and summer. 3 of the farms had established trees on