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Harking back 200 years on biodiversity is ‘unhelpful’, says rural watchdog The CLA today (Thursday, 11 March) said a new report on England's lost and threatened species is "contrived" in looking back to the early 1800s. The Natural England report - Lost Life: England's Lost and Threatened Species – blamed agricultural intensification for loss of species.
CLA West Midlands Director, Caroline Bedell, said: "Harking back to 1810, when England was hardly industrialised, had a population of only 12 million and the greatest threat to these shores was Napoleon is not a useful contribution to an important debate.
"It would be more helpful and relevant for Natural England to follow the CLA approach of examining ways to ensure the incentives are in place to continue the gains in biodiversity that we have achieved in recent years."
The Staffordshire based rural leader added: "Farmers and land managers are the only people capable of providing the natural habitats that we all want, and are already doing a great deal in this respect.
"As well as feeding the nation, landowners already undertake a lot of voluntary environmental management work, a fact indicated by the large amount of land in agri-environment schemes. Our research has shown that where landowners are actively engaged, large-scale improvements in habitat can be achieved." |
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