Sheep are destroying precious British habitats – and we taxpayers are footing the bill to the tune of millions in a climate and biodiversity emergency - it’s bad and bonkers ! Me for The Guardian . . . @wildjustice.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Oh for God's sake ! He's here too ..
Great job Chris. Good luck with the case. Sheep farming subsidies amaze me and the political clout they hold is staggering.
So what subsidies do farmers get for sheep?
Delinked payments
Phil, again, what are they paid for? Simple question. Just the truth is all I'm asking for.
Read the article bro 👊
Grow up! Bro!😂🤣
Aww mate. Much as I’m enjoying our conversation I’m going to have dip out for now. I’ve a job to do, and unfortunately it involves more than buying the right to stick sheep on common ground and then collecting a pay check from the tax payer once a year
Lol, you know nothing about the subject. A joke! Leave it to people that actually know what they're talking about. Got to love the uneducated on here!🤣🤣
Phil, the article is wrong BRO!🤣😂🤣
But what are they for? Chris says in court of law that sheep are subsided. Are they?
Chris is referring, I believe, to the countryside stewardship payments that commoners get for ’maintaing’ Dartmoor. This is still a thing, so the short answer to your question is ‘yes’.
It's got nothing to do with Counrtyside stewardship payments. Again, what subsidies do farmers get for sheep.
I live on common land in the Bannau Brycheiniog where sheep are allowed onto the high pastures from the end of March to the end of September. The few green sections are grazed out, but because they don't eat the bracken it is encroaching a little more each year, engulfing gorse and other flora
Yep. People struggle with this one, but it's a biggy
Thank you for all that you do, Chris.
Sheep have nothing to do with tussock grass. The cessation of the ancient practice of burning off has enabled the tussock grass to move in unhindered along with bracken. Burning off released nutrients for diversity of growth and repressed the monocultures that r moving in to huge swathes...
I grew up on the toes of Dartmoor and the change was pretty much immediate to see. It's counter intuitive but burning off sustained the natural diversity of habitats on Dartmoor. The proof is in the pudding and would be easy enough to prove if it was reintroduced into trial areas.
Failed human species leaders. That all they know fail. They missed the boat on climate action. Just fools
So what subsidies do farmers get for sheep, Chris? I'd be interested to hear.
Everyone needs to see this talk by George Monbiot to the Dartmoor Parks authority. We've been sold so many lies about the state of our countryside and what is "natural". I learnt so much truth in just the first 10 min. Please share as widely as possible, youtu.be/SYdm6k1tg3Y?...
Livestock have shaped and influenced our managed environment for 1000s of years.
Well bit of a correction. Humans are destroying precious British habitats by breeding sheep for the animal ag industry.
Oh, you mean the 2 million people that visit Dartmoor every year with their dogs!
Same in parts of Ireland. There must be a better way.
Sheep farming over centuries has made the South Downs what it is today. I have however heard a developer try to use this argument to justify building on the floodplain - not my fault if it floods it’s the sheep 🙄
Should have tried being Scottish a few hundred years ago!!
That Duke of Sutherland was an evil b*****d. I still rage at what he did. I wish someone would blow up his monument. 🫢
