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Blanket Netting and Animal Entrapment

A brown snake is tangled in a fishing net on the ground, surrounded by rocks and some green plants.

Government agencies reinforce the dangers of netting
The ultimate goal of creating sustainable vegetation is to restore and enhance the natural environment. So it doesn’t make sense to introduce environmental hazards and waste into the process of establishing vegetation. Yet, that’s exactly what common types of plastic netting in erosion control blankets do. Animal entrapment is a big issue.

Three panels: left shows a snake on dry grass, center shows a lizard being eaten by a snake, right shows a fish entangled in roots underwater.

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