Wildflower meadow protection backfires

[Lucan]

BBC News - Wildflower meadow protection plan 'backfires'

 

What was it Reagan said?

[BARNSLEY BOB]

Brilliant.

 

As i said last night "the lunatics are running the asylum"

[hedgesparrow]

NE EA FC thats 3 which are as much use as a chocolate fire guard.

produced to sort things out and all thats happened is they have grown top heavy with the troops on ground being got rid of to pay the high wages of the elite few who are supposed to run these qangos.

the lot want shelving or they need a big shake up to get rid of those who have not got a clue on how to run there departments.

but never happen unless they upset there minister.

look at the top of EA the flack he got did he go did he eck still in his job.

unless you have a goverment which listens to the population which they will not it carry on stumbling on making gaffs after gaffs and saying o will have to amend that bill to reflect this

[ArthurBottlesworth]

Bit simple to think someone with a nice meadow on the edge of a town voluntarily getting it listed and protected

 

No chance of getting planning permission then .....

[armybloke]

I volunteer for the Wildlife Trust and these meadows are a haven for wildlife only the problem facing all the sacred sites is that they getting smaller by the ever increasing demand for development space. A big shame that a knee-jerk reaction saw the demise of swathes of meadowland.

[Marko]

In light of the latest round of price cuts to the milk price, perhaps the real threat to meadows will be the collapse of traditional dairy farming.

Intensive units might scrape through with economies of scale, efficiency and high yields but the very farming mechanisms that created and maintained the meadows are unlikely to survive.