Joanna Blythman Why ‘rewilding’ would devastate farmers
big push is on to ‘rewild’ Britain. As part of an effort to combat climate change, last year, Sir Ian Boyd – a former government Chief Scientific Officer – called for half of our farmland to be ‘returned to nature’; that is, allowed to revert back to unmanaged woodland and natural habitat. To put the scale of this in perspective, he believes that cattle and sheep numbers in the
