[New post] My letter to my MP about the Government’s attack on nature. Please write yours.
Carol Donaldson posted: " If you love it, you must act to protect it. Dear Rehman Chishti MP, I have worked in the field of wildlife conservation for the last 25 years. In recent years I have worked closely with the farming community of North Kent advising them on managing" naturegirl
I have worked in the field of wildlife conservation for the last 25 years. In recent years I have worked closely with the farming community of North Kent advising them on managing their land for wildlife. The proposed ELMS scheme has given renewed energy and enthusiasm from farmers to do more for nature. Many farmers want to do the right thing for wildlife, but it needs to make financial sense and they need sustained advice to do so.
I cannot begin to tell you how demoralised I am at the Governments plans to scrap all the good work and good will that has gone into planning the ELMS scheme and instead continue with the broken system of basic farm payments. I have seen first-hand how this scheme doesn't work and causes good habitat to be laid to waste. I think the Government is in serious danger of alienating the farming community if it does a U-turn on the ELMS scheme and continues to waste public money by giving it to people based on how large their landholding is.
I am also unbelievably saddened that the government is threatening to tear up the laws that protect our best wildlife sites and weaken protections for nature in the planning system. The public care about nature and nature is a vital resource for our health and wellbeing. Attacking it in this way is an attack on the land beneath our feet and the people that live on it.
I think the UK Government is in serious danger of shaming itself and underestimating how much people care.
Today, as my constituency MP I want to ask you three simple questions: • Will you demand that key nature protections are kept within UK law and not ripped up by December 2023, or weakened within new Investment Zones? • Will you demand that the Environmental Land Management Scheme is retained to enable farmers to provide more nature alongside high-quality food? • Will you do all you can to make Britain a world leader in protecting nature at home whilst committing to an ambitious global deal for nature at the Convention on Biological Diversity COP 15?
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