Forums
New posts
Forum list
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New resources
Latest activity
Trending Threads
Resources
Latest reviews
Search resources
FarmTV
Farm Compare
Search
Tokens/Searches
Calendar
Upcoming Events
Members
Registered members
Current visitors
New Resources
New posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Forum list
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Navigation
Install the app
Install
More options
Contact us
Close Menu
Forums
Farm Business
Agricultural Matters
BPS/ELMS what am I missing?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Hindsight" data-source="post: 7368889" data-attributes="member: 3169"><p><span style="font-size: 26px"><strong>Anselm Guise to rewild 250 acres of Elmore Court in Gloucestershire</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Former DJ angers local farmers with plans to conserve grounds of 750-year-old seat</strong></span></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/ben-webster" target="_blank">Ben Webster</a>, Environment Editor</p><p>Saturday January 23 2021, 12.01am, The Times</p><p><img src="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F05ccae56-5cdf-11eb-86f4-4fa0aa4e7fd3.jpg?crop=1600%2C900%2C0%2C0&resize=1180" alt="Anselm Guise will “allow nature to flourish” at Elmore Court near Gloucester after a wild time in his younger years. Graham Littleton, who has a nearby farm, fears that rewilding threatens food security" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Anselm Guise will “allow nature to flourish” at Elmore Court near Gloucester after a wild time in his younger years. Graham Littleton, who has a nearby farm, fears that rewilding threatens food security</p><p>ANDREW FOX FOR THE TIMES; DOMINIC SEARCH</p><p>Share</p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anselm-guise-to-rewild-250-acres-of-elmore-court-in-gloucestershire-bb6xvxnhk" target="_blank">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anselm-guise-to-rewild-250-acres-of-elmore-court-in-gloucestershire-bb6xvxnhk</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anselm-guise-to-rewild-250-acres-of-elmore-court-in-gloucestershire-bb6xvxnhk" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anselm-guise-to-rewild-250-acres-of-elmore-court-in-gloucestershire-bb6xvxnhk</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anselm-guise-to-rewild-250-acres-of-elmore-court-in-gloucestershire-bb6xvxnhk" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anselm-guise-to-rewild-250-acres-of-elmore-court-in-gloucestershire-bb6xvxnhk</a></p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anselm-guise-to-rewild-250-acres-of-elmore-court-in-gloucestershire-bb6xvxnhk" target="_blank">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anselm-guise-to-rewild-250-acres-of-elmore-court-in-gloucestershire-bb6xvxnhk</a></p><p>Save</p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anselm-guise-to-rewild-250-acres-of-elmore-court-in-gloucestershire-bb6xvxnhk" target="_blank">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anselm-guise-to-rewild-250-acres-of-elmore-court-in-gloucestershire-bb6xvxnhk</a></p><p>Anselm Guise, son of the baronet of Highnam, was dubbed the hedonistic heir after rejecting his father’s plan that he follow him into banking. Instead he became a DJ running psychedelic trance parties.</p><p></p><p>That worked for a while, but he settled down after inheriting his family’s crumbling 750-year-old seat, Elmore Court in Gloucestershire. Now he is breaking with tradition again with a plan to rewild 250 acres.</p><p></p><p>The 49-year-old is one of a new generation of landowners planning to “allow nature to flourish” on their estates. It has pitted him against a number of local farmers aghast at the idea of returning prime arable land to nature rather than growing crops.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F25aa6892-5ce6-11eb-8f46-f2b616b9e00a.jpg?crop=5760%2C3840%2C0%2C0&resize=1180" alt="Elmore Court. The plans include earning ecotourism income from six new luxury treehouses with decks overlooking the rewilding site" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Elmore Court. The plans include earning ecotourism income from six new luxury treehouses with decks overlooking the rewilding site</p><p>ALAMY</p><p>Mr Guise, son of Sir James Guise, the 8th and present baronet of Highnam, admits that about 70 of the 250 acres are high-quality arable land. But he says it is the only land available on his estate for rewilding as the rest is on long-term farm tenancies.</p><p></p><p></p><p>He plans to introduce rare breeds of grazing animals, including Tamworth pigs, as well as red deer, and let them “roam free across the whole land”, harvesting some for meat.</p><p></p><p>“When you have been trained into believing and brought up that you’re going to inherit this place and be the custodian it’s quite hard to go, ‘You know what, I’m going to do something completely different to what all the other people before me have done.’</p><p>“Some of the tenant farmers are going to think, ‘What the hell are you doing?’ So it does take a bit of time [to make the change].”</p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio" target="_blank"><img src="https://nuk-tnl-deck-prod-static.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/c096171ea39d1790548f9e5994c229be.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p>TIMES RADIO</p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio" target="_blank">Tune in</a></p><p>We will bring the stories of the day to life with warmth, wit and expertise. Listen for free on DAB radio, your smart speaker, online at times.radio, and via the Times Radio app</p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio" target="_blank">Start listening</a></p><p>He stopped cultivating the land last year and plans “to see what nature does all on its own. It’s about going back to a much more wild environment. But it’s also very important to inspire people and show the difference . . . the abundance of insects and birds.”</p><p>The plans include earning ecotourism income from six new luxury treehouses with decks overlooking the rewilding site.</p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>SPONSORED</strong></span></p><p></p><p></p><p>He has upset some people locally by reducing space allocated to a pheasant shoot. He considers the mass release of non-native gamebirds “pretty harmful from a biodiversity perspective” and is concerned that treehouse guests would not like it. “I can’t have somebody sat on their deck having a nice cup of coffee in the morning and a pheasant that’s been shot lands there.”</p><p>A document setting out the plans has echoes of his erstwhile hedonism, including a section entitled “nakedness is next to equality” that proposes a floating sauna in a wild swimming pond. Mr Guise says critics of his scheme have an “old-fashioned” view and “have all been people of a certain age group — 75 upwards”.</p><p>Graham Littleton, 77, who owns neighbouring Bridgemacote farm, emailed Mr Guise expressing his concerns. “Some of it is high-quality land and as a farmer I have difficulty in seeing it not being used to its full potential,” he said. He was “not keen” on rewilding because he feared it could undermine the UK’s food security: “I’m old enough to remember food rationing.”</p><p>Other local farmers felt the same way, he said, but might not speak out because they were Mr Guise’s tenants.</p><p>Landowners embracing rewilding are fuelling a debate about the balance between wildlife and food security. The UK’s food self-sufficiency fell from 78 per cent in 1984 to 64 per cent in 2019.</p><p>Dominic Buscall, 28, yesterday announced plans to introduce white-tailed eagles to his family’s Ken Hill estate on the Norfolk coast where he has already released beavers in a 1,000-acre rewilding project.</p><p>The government is planning to support rewilding under the Environmental Land Management scheme (ELM) which is replacing area-based subsidies under the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Boris Johnson has pledged that ten landscape recovery projects will be established over four years to create “well over 30,000 football pitches of wildlife-rich habitat”.</p><p>ELM is causing a seismic shift in British farming and Mr Guise believes it will require a change in attitude. “It’s very important not to vilify farmers, no one sets out to do any harm,” he said.</p><p>But the CAP had meant it was “easy to be motivated to try and get as much as you possibly can out of land and the damage to soil and biodiversity that comes with it”.</p><p><strong>British landowners going Dutch</strong></p><p>Oostvaardersplassen, a 15,000-acre nature reserve east of Amsterdam on land reclaimed from a lake, is the inspiration for many British rewilding enthusiasts (Beb Webster writes).</p><p>Red deer, cattle and horses were introduced in the Eighties to stop habitat for birds from becoming overgrown. Endangered birds were attracted to the reserve. But a lack of predators and mild winters caused the animal population to boom to more than 5,000. A harsh winter in 2017-18 resulted in more than 3,000 dying.</p><p>Efforts have since been made to reduce the population by culling and relocation.</p><p>Sir Charles Burrell and his wife Isabella Tree created the UK’s most celebrated rewilding project in 2001 at the 3,500-acre Knepp Castle in West Sussex. The couple were inspired by Frans Vera, the ecologist who devised the idea at Oostvaardersplassen.</p><p>They have made the estate profitable and a haven for wildlife. Turtle doves, nightingales and peregrine falcons breed there. White stork chicks hatched last year, the first time this has happened in the wild in the UK for centuries.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Share</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hindsight, post: 7368889, member: 3169"] [SIZE=7][B]Anselm Guise to rewild 250 acres of Elmore Court in Gloucestershire[/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=6][B]Former DJ angers local farmers with plans to conserve grounds of 750-year-old seat[/B][/SIZE] [URL='https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/ben-webster']Ben Webster[/URL], Environment Editor Saturday January 23 2021, 12.01am, The Times [IMG alt="Anselm Guise will “allow nature to flourish” at Elmore Court near Gloucester after a wild time in his younger years. Graham Littleton, who has a nearby farm, fears that rewilding threatens food security"]https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F05ccae56-5cdf-11eb-86f4-4fa0aa4e7fd3.jpg?crop=1600%2C900%2C0%2C0&resize=1180[/IMG] Anselm Guise will “allow nature to flourish” at Elmore Court near Gloucester after a wild time in his younger years. Graham Littleton, who has a nearby farm, fears that rewilding threatens food security ANDREW FOX FOR THE TIMES; DOMINIC SEARCH Share [URL='https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anselm-guise-to-rewild-250-acres-of-elmore-court-in-gloucestershire-bb6xvxnhk'][/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anselm-guise-to-rewild-250-acres-of-elmore-court-in-gloucestershire-bb6xvxnhk'][/URL] [URL='https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anselm-guise-to-rewild-250-acres-of-elmore-court-in-gloucestershire-bb6xvxnhk'][/URL] [URL='https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anselm-guise-to-rewild-250-acres-of-elmore-court-in-gloucestershire-bb6xvxnhk'][/URL] Save [URL='https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anselm-guise-to-rewild-250-acres-of-elmore-court-in-gloucestershire-bb6xvxnhk'][/URL] Anselm Guise, son of the baronet of Highnam, was dubbed the hedonistic heir after rejecting his father’s plan that he follow him into banking. Instead he became a DJ running psychedelic trance parties. That worked for a while, but he settled down after inheriting his family’s crumbling 750-year-old seat, Elmore Court in Gloucestershire. Now he is breaking with tradition again with a plan to rewild 250 acres. The 49-year-old is one of a new generation of landowners planning to “allow nature to flourish” on their estates. It has pitted him against a number of local farmers aghast at the idea of returning prime arable land to nature rather than growing crops. [IMG alt="Elmore Court. The plans include earning ecotourism income from six new luxury treehouses with decks overlooking the rewilding site"]https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F25aa6892-5ce6-11eb-8f46-f2b616b9e00a.jpg?crop=5760%2C3840%2C0%2C0&resize=1180[/IMG] Elmore Court. The plans include earning ecotourism income from six new luxury treehouses with decks overlooking the rewilding site ALAMY Mr Guise, son of Sir James Guise, the 8th and present baronet of Highnam, admits that about 70 of the 250 acres are high-quality arable land. But he says it is the only land available on his estate for rewilding as the rest is on long-term farm tenancies. He plans to introduce rare breeds of grazing animals, including Tamworth pigs, as well as red deer, and let them “roam free across the whole land”, harvesting some for meat. “When you have been trained into believing and brought up that you’re going to inherit this place and be the custodian it’s quite hard to go, ‘You know what, I’m going to do something completely different to what all the other people before me have done.’ “Some of the tenant farmers are going to think, ‘What the hell are you doing?’ So it does take a bit of time [to make the change].” [URL='https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio'][IMG]https://nuk-tnl-deck-prod-static.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/c096171ea39d1790548f9e5994c229be.png[/IMG][/URL] TIMES RADIO [URL='https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio']Tune in[/URL] We will bring the stories of the day to life with warmth, wit and expertise. Listen for free on DAB radio, your smart speaker, online at times.radio, and via the Times Radio app [URL='https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio']Start listening[/URL] He stopped cultivating the land last year and plans “to see what nature does all on its own. It’s about going back to a much more wild environment. But it’s also very important to inspire people and show the difference . . . the abundance of insects and birds.” The plans include earning ecotourism income from six new luxury treehouses with decks overlooking the rewilding site. [SIZE=6][B]SPONSORED[/B][/SIZE] He has upset some people locally by reducing space allocated to a pheasant shoot. He considers the mass release of non-native gamebirds “pretty harmful from a biodiversity perspective” and is concerned that treehouse guests would not like it. “I can’t have somebody sat on their deck having a nice cup of coffee in the morning and a pheasant that’s been shot lands there.” A document setting out the plans has echoes of his erstwhile hedonism, including a section entitled “nakedness is next to equality” that proposes a floating sauna in a wild swimming pond. Mr Guise says critics of his scheme have an “old-fashioned” view and “have all been people of a certain age group — 75 upwards”. Graham Littleton, 77, who owns neighbouring Bridgemacote farm, emailed Mr Guise expressing his concerns. “Some of it is high-quality land and as a farmer I have difficulty in seeing it not being used to its full potential,” he said. He was “not keen” on rewilding because he feared it could undermine the UK’s food security: “I’m old enough to remember food rationing.” Other local farmers felt the same way, he said, but might not speak out because they were Mr Guise’s tenants. Landowners embracing rewilding are fuelling a debate about the balance between wildlife and food security. The UK’s food self-sufficiency fell from 78 per cent in 1984 to 64 per cent in 2019. Dominic Buscall, 28, yesterday announced plans to introduce white-tailed eagles to his family’s Ken Hill estate on the Norfolk coast where he has already released beavers in a 1,000-acre rewilding project. The government is planning to support rewilding under the Environmental Land Management scheme (ELM) which is replacing area-based subsidies under the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Boris Johnson has pledged that ten landscape recovery projects will be established over four years to create “well over 30,000 football pitches of wildlife-rich habitat”. ELM is causing a seismic shift in British farming and Mr Guise believes it will require a change in attitude. “It’s very important not to vilify farmers, no one sets out to do any harm,” he said. But the CAP had meant it was “easy to be motivated to try and get as much as you possibly can out of land and the damage to soil and biodiversity that comes with it”. [B]British landowners going Dutch[/B] Oostvaardersplassen, a 15,000-acre nature reserve east of Amsterdam on land reclaimed from a lake, is the inspiration for many British rewilding enthusiasts (Beb Webster writes). Red deer, cattle and horses were introduced in the Eighties to stop habitat for birds from becoming overgrown. Endangered birds were attracted to the reserve. But a lack of predators and mild winters caused the animal population to boom to more than 5,000. A harsh winter in 2017-18 resulted in more than 3,000 dying. Efforts have since been made to reduce the population by culling and relocation. Sir Charles Burrell and his wife Isabella Tree created the UK’s most celebrated rewilding project in 2001 at the 3,500-acre Knepp Castle in West Sussex. The couple were inspired by Frans Vera, the ecologist who devised the idea at Oostvaardersplassen. They have made the estate profitable and a haven for wildlife. Turtle doves, nightingales and peregrine falcons breed there. White stork chicks hatched last year, the first time this has happened in the wild in the UK for centuries. Share [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Farm Business
Agricultural Matters
BPS/ELMS what am I missing?
This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register.
By continuing to use this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.
Accept
Learn more…
Top