Why should a 'Nature Reserve' not be a place where nature determines the management? We all know the answer by now. £££s and more £££s. The conservation industry which depicts itself as the saviours of wildlife is addicted to the tempting rewards of farming subsidies. On farms these subsidies can tempt landowners and managers to moderate the worst excesses of their exploitation via Higher Level Stewardship. On land managed by the conservation industry the very reverse is practiced. The land's intrinsic desire to become more wild and hence more wildlife friendly is reined in by the managers' inability to resist the lure of farm subsidies which bolster their role and protect their salaries.
Why do they need to graze with cows when large herbivores are already here quite naturally and much more elegantly? Deer bring no farm subsidy. Is scam too harsh a word?
The most distasteful aspect is, of course, the hypocrisy that accompanies this with much printing ink consumed by spurious self justification.
The most pitiful aspect is that people tell lies so often they themselves start to believe the story.
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