BY BERT BURNETT

First, have a read of this article (a link to the original can be found here):

So, we have a nature crisis, caused by farming and bad land management according to such sources.

These people, in this article, are the very people who are going to fix the crisis so they say …. REALLY?

I’d say, looking at the efforts of the rewilding, carbon capturing brigade thus far that they are actually adding to the crisis.

There have been no increases in the red and amber listed species connected to this nature ‘crisis’ through rewilding .. we are simply trading one tried and tested habitat which supports a huge variety of wildlife and flora for an untested one which to date has proven to dilute the wildlife in it.

Which areas of rewilding and carbon capturing have reached net zero?

Which of them has increased the numbers of ground nesting birds and the mammals of the open moors they continue to cover in trees?

The answer is few if any.

They have simply removed one habitat and replaced it with another and in the meantime created the demise of the more vulnerable species which are part of the crisis.

This rewilding is only increasing the bank balances of the speculators (until the carbon credit market implodes when those who have been caught up in it realise they have been conned into a South Sea bubble).

Rewilding in its current form is saving nothing.

Even the alleged carbon capturing claim is rapidly dispelled as myth when you consider the huge amount of CO2 that has been released through the plethora of wildfires connected to these “wild” areas.

Science is showing that the tree planting is more likely to increase carbon loss than add to its capture on many of these sites.

What you are reading about in the linked article above is not about how these people will save the planet but how they hope to become rich, very temporarily it should be added, on the back of speeding up the nature crisis.

The rewilding industry – the professors, the bankers, the corporate social responsibility hucksters and those who leave plastic all over the moors when their saplings are munched by deer – ought to look at themselves and be ashamed.

It is good news that those sheikhs, financial institutions and others who first invested in carbon credits and now have them coming out of their ears and unsellable are now consulting their lawyers. The professors who put their names to them, the land bodies and ‘conservation’ charities will now be wide awake to the high speed train on the horizon coming at them with unstoppable speed.

Bert Burnett is a retired gamekeeper of more than fifty years experience.