At Thursday's Blacka Moor RAG meeting the reserve manager made an amazing and surprising admission. Despite all the signs that have gone up and leaflets printed proclaiming that it IS a Nature Reserve there's nothing official about this. They CALL it a Nature Reserve simply because anyone can call anything a nature reserve if they want to!
There is an officially approved status of Nature Reserve recognised by government agencies such as Natural England. Blacka Moor does NOT have this designation! So what is the point of calling the place a nature reserve? Ah well, it's all a matter of being in control and making people think that it's not 'as of right' that you come here.
It should be clearly understood here that I am very much in favour of a suitable level of protection for nature and wildlife. But it must be balanced and proportionate. Certainly not the kind that is designed to cow people, often the very people who have helped to inculcate the respect for these values in the present generation. And people who have helped to keep these isssues alive in times past when our landscape was under threat from unsuitable development.
Read more about this subject here.
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