Let’s stop the hedgerow butchers

AMID all the doom and gloom over the economy I have noticed one positive development – people are heading back to nature and the garden and to “growing your own”.

With this in mind, I wish to endorse Donal Hickey’s sentiments (‘A hedge well worth investing in’, May 4).

Under section 40 of the 1976 Wildlife Act, as amended by section 46 of the Wildlife Amendment Act, 2000, the cutting of hedgerows and ditches is illegal from March 1 to August 31.