Tuesday 1 April 2008

Wildlife Trust or Farmlife Trust?

It still seems hard to believe however many times I try to understand it. But we have here on Blacka an organisation, going by the name of "wildlife trust", which is actually far more interested in farm life. I've now grappled with this paradox for several years and mentally bent over backwards to try to see SWT's point of view but can only come to the conclusion that they are an outfit who are bent solely on recycling money that comes from national grants. If the grants are there to turn the land into agricultural land and they can tick the boxes and fill in the forms they will do so. If there are no grants to promote wildness and wildlife they will just not bother.




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The problem here is one of top down decision making,the current management orthodoxies and the target culture which prioritises biodiversity and especially LBAPs or Local Biodiversity Action Plans. The great thing about these for the wildlife trusts is that they mean you can get money for everything you do. But if something just happens,like Blacka becoming more wild, or wild animals like red deer coming along, you don't get any money for it.

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