cattle,conservation, land management

[n.w]

Ouse Washes Nature Reserve, Cambridgeshire / Norfolk

The Ouse Washes forms the UK's largest area of washland. In winter it attracts ducks & whooper swans, while spring months bring snipes, lapwings & redshanks

www.rspb.org.uk

Came across this yesterday, 2000 cattle grazed to preserve the permanent pasture and encourage wildflowers, willow coppiced, hay meadows cut and predator control !
I wonder what the re-wilders and vegans would do with the land ?

 

[egbert]

Ouse Washes Nature Reserve, Cambridgeshire / Norfolk

The Ouse Washes forms the UK's largest area of washland. In winter it attracts ducks & whooper swans, while spring months bring snipes, lapwings & redshanks

www.rspb.org.uk

Came across this yesterday, 2000 cattle grazed to preserve the permanent pasture and encourage wildflowers, willow coppiced, hay meadows cut and predator control !
I wonder what the re-wilders and vegans would do with the land ?

rhetorical question?

 

[n.w]

rhetorical question?

Not really, it does raise several questions, Packham and Avery are denying that predation is significant in reducing other spp of birds, monbiot is promoting veganism, and is anti livestock farming, whilst they all believe that we should re-wild agricultural land. However the on the ground practical conservationist's have found that agriculture is needed to make this reserve work, as have many others. I would like to hear the argument against management of the washes from the three mentioned above, or anyone else !