Video about saving mice in England has permaculture principles

I was watching this video today    about repopulating mice and I was struck by a couple things:

1. They reintroduced the mice to margins between different areas in the park.
2. Traditional (monocropped) farming was a big reason they were threatened... they would not have lost habitat with permaculture practice.
3. Because their habitat has been divided they needed to take mice from multiple locations to ensure genetic diversity...so...they're making a wild mice landrace?

Overall it appears to me the gentleman running the program who was interviewed did a good job of explaining some key ecology/permaculture ideas to laypeople through both the video and the public release.

What did you see or find interesting?

I don't have time to watch the video right now, but I can tell you that many of our smaller owls are highly dependent on mice, particularly to keep their babies fed in the spring.

I would expect that in England, the traditional miles of hedgerows and coppiced woodlands would have supported many mice as well as plenty of birds, but those resources have been reduced and are now often discontinuous, and the environmental consequences weren't considered when larger fields were the economic goal.

This doesn't apply to mice, but I was at a presentation about bees and research done in California showed that building hedgerows at the edge of strawberry fields improved fertilization of the berries *and* a reduction in harmful pests because the predator insects could overwinter in the hedgerows. They even were able to identify how far into the field these positive impacts reached!

It will be interesting to see what the video identifies as positive impacts of mice on a healthy environment!