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"Golf courses, despite occupying large green spaces, are not necessarily good
for the environment. Land is often cleared to make way for a fairway and
maintaining the pristine turf often requires a lot of water, regular mowing and
the spraying of fertilizers and pesticides – none of which is good for
biodiversity.
In the US, with the number of course closures outweighing new openings every
year since 2006, some are questioning how we should use these huge spaces – and
asking whether, instead of golf, nature should be left to run its course.
Conservation nonprofits and local authorities are looking to acquire golf
courses that have been abandoned due to high maintenance costs, low player
numbers or other reasons, and repurpose them into landscapes that boost
biodiversity and build natural defenses against climate change.
These spaces provide “huge opportunities from a conservation perspective,” says
Guillermo Rodriguez, California state director of The Trust for Public Land
(TPL), a conservation organization which is rewilding three of the state’s
former courses.
“It’s a multiple win,” he continues. “You increase public access by taking
former private golf courses (and) turning them into public properties … (you
return) water back into rivers and streams and create a better habitat for the
endangered species that we have in California.”"
Via
Future Crunch:
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