August

As the food producers and the rewilders battle it out over their polarised vision of what our future landscapes should look like, it's good to see the Chairman of Natural England, Tony Juniper, talking sense about how we need to build multifunctional landscapes which deliver different layers of outcomes.

Henrietta Appleton discusses the findings from ‘Sustaining Ecosystems: English Grouse Moors’, our audit of the contribution of grouse moor management to society’s wants and needs, as expressed by goals in the Government’s 25 year Environment Plan (25YEP).

It was encouraging to see the results of a long-term study of wildlife on a large commercial arable farm which were published on Tuesday 2nd August. The results support those of the longer-running GWCT Allerton Project, which is now in its third decade.

The EU has announced a temporary derogation from rules on crop rotation and maintenance of non-productive features on arable land for the claim year 2023 in response to the impact of the Ukraine Crisis on food supplies.