This guy!?

[Jimfandango]

Farmers hatch plan to return area the size of Dorset to wild nature

WildEast aims to convince farmers, councils and others across East Anglia to pledge land to wildlife

www.theguardian.com

 

[teslacoils]

Guardian. Sigh.

 

[Suffolk Serf]

It must be nice to have so much land and money that you can't be arsed to do much with it all.

 

[Shughie McFee]

you first

 

[7610 super q]

I pledge to make as much money as I can out of my little bit of land to keep the bank manager happy.

 

[Bald Rick]

Seeing their first names sets me off in hives .......... Hugh (probably known as Hugo), Argus (WTF) & Olly

Chinless wonders.

FFS where's Corbyn and land reform when you need him?

 

[ImLost]

Farmers hatch plan to return area the size of Dorset to wild nature

WildEast aims to convince farmers, councils and others across East Anglia to pledge land to wildlife

www.theguardian.com

Yes this guy is serious about it. I posted a similar link the other day on one of the threads running about introducing bison.

All the locals know him as a complete t*t, and I have told him as much to his face, as have many others. I could go on, but they aren't nice people and think they own the world. Makes me sick.

 

[Adeptandy]

I've already done it




















but not by choice, RSPB & Landlord in cohoots, but at least I don't have the rent to pay on that bit now

 

[Bill the Bass]

By the looks of their hands they haven’t done much farming. Let them get on, it’s 8000 acres not producing food.

Maybe I’m cynical, but these toffs, including Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree don’t half come across like virtue signalling c*nt5 - no wonder the National Trust loves them.

 

[Suffolk Serf]

I wonder how many of their ancestors made their original fortunes from slavery?

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

I'm missing something here.

Who is paying these landowners to take 20% of their land out of production?

To take it to an extreme, I know of two small farms for sale (three miles apart). Could I buy them and take it all out of production and fund it all through crowdfunding? The total is 450 acres and nearly £4m

 

[puppet]

So you farm 8000 acres to a standstill for 60 years, reaping all the financial benefits then decide to farm like the average UK livestock farm?
Hardly a conversion on the road to Damascus but maybe I am used to a different landscape. I can see 3 miles from the house and only grassland and trees to see. No cereals and around 30 acres of reseed.
I guess this is sustainable farming before anyone invented it.
Can I have the money please.

We had a lynx escape from a wildlife park. Killed a few hens and scavenged in the town before being caught. Wait until they take a few cats and small terriers and the mood will change

 

[Suffolk Serf]

I'm missing something here.

Who is paying these landowners to take 20% of their land out of production?

To take it to an extreme, I know of two small farms for sale (three miles apart). Could I buy them and take it all out of production and fund it all through crowdfunding? The total is 450 acres and nearly £4m

They'll be milking every source possible, just like Knepp, including lottery money.

 

[Muddyroads]

It’s the usual twisted Guardian rubbish. Paragraph 6 sums it up:
”already gathered support from farmers of all sizes from across East Anglia including vicars, teachers, grassroots conservation projects and industrial estate owners.
How does that make sense?
But @Bill the Bass says, the NT will be drooling.

 

[Bill the Bass]

I have nothing against rewilding per se, I just find those involved and the NGO’s that swoon around it so fecking conceited and self obsessed.

 

[Two Tone]

I knew his father. The phrase “Lording it over” is a huge understatement!

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

They'll be milking every source possible,

Then to come back to a tiny scale, if I have a wonky field corner that is a pain in the hole, what is stopping me advertising it as a wildflower plot and charging organisations and individuals to help the environment?

 

[ImLost]

I knew his father. The phrase “Lording it over” is a huge understatement!

And the current "heir to the estate" thinks he's sir Lordy s*'+head Somerleyton already, and he's only a kid. ? Some of the most ill mannered children I have met. The fact that even the local school won't take them kind of speaks for itself.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Lets face it: anyone could take thousands of acres out of production if the tax payer or paying visitors were footing the bill.

Ultimately the land will revert to trees as they are the species that stick it for the long term. In the meantime, however, you will have acre after acre of scrub in the meantime. Cattle do not eat everything in front of them.

 

[puppet]

Then to come back to a tiny scale, if I have a wonky field corner that is a pain in the hole, what is stopping me advertising it as a wildflower plot and charging organisations and individuals to help the environment?

Maybe the way forward.

I am going to fell some trees next week. Oh, Elton John will lease them to salve his conscience and carbon footprint. I will send him a certificate and a photo.
Gwyneth Paltrow too? Another certificate and so it goes on for the same bit of woodland.
At least I suspect when the crowdfunders and charities want us to buy a bit of inaccessible rainforest we are buying the same area which someone else owns and was never going to be felled.
But I'm not cynical