Restoring the Balance

Restoring the BalanceManaging wildlife in a busy landscape

A discussion brief on how we might improve biodiversity in England. We suggest revising wildlife legislation to make it more flexible and focused on conservation rather than on protection. We suggest clarifying the objectives of Natural England so that it has to cherish renewable land-use and deal with some of the wildlife management problems it faces. We suggest too that, in addition to paying farmers for conservating habitats, we whould also reward them for conservation success.

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