Solar panels are a bad crop for salt marshes

SIR – A new 860-acre forest at beautiful Wooler in Northumberland (report, December 1) can only be applauded.

A wild 890-acre corner of Kentish salt marshes, a nature reserve, between Stephen Harris’s Sportsman restaurant and the mouth of Faversham creek, is proposed to be covered with solar panels. Read this and weep.

Anthea Moon

Faversham, Kent SIR – Your report was headlined “Haven for threatened red squirrels”. Yet one can simply not have native trees and native squirrels at the same time.

Native (native as a species, but in fact mostly of Scandinavian descent) red squirrels benefit from Douglas fir, Norwegian spruce and larch, all non-native trees. The native oak favours the grey.

Natalia Doran

London SW15

Old and new in Faversham Creek, Kent, with a wide expanse of salt marshes beyond