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I’m sure we all love birdsong on the golf course, but maybe there should be more of it...

The RSPB’s nature reserves cover around 140,000 hectares across Britain. Although this seems like an awful lot of land, the same amount is also covered by out-of-bounds areas on golf courses! The difference is that, where the RSPB’s nature reserves are renowned protected lands, golf courses have a bad reputation with environmentalists as being poor habitats for wildlife; chemicals, balls and even discarded golf clothes litter these hidden area.



However, this doesn’t have to be the case. If British golf courses cut down on the use of chemicals and fertilisers in these areas, this massive area of land could be made into a fantastic environment and habitat for birds to live in. Nigel Symes of the RSPB says every golf course has the potential to be a sanctuary for wildlife and that the more clubs that look into what they can do to help birds, the better! I, for one, agree with him!