The irony of these fires is that upland sheep are only being farmed because of subsidies given to farmers by the government. They’re near worthless otherwise.
If we stopped giving these farmers subsidies, the hillsides would also not be overgrazed resulting in natural native trees growing.
The cost of this policy disaster just gets worse and worse.
Edit: upland overgrazing and burning also worsens flash flooding events.
Every year without fail this is happening in the Mournes and across Ireland’s uplands; but the Mournes seems to get it the worst.
It’s absolutely shocking and shameful someone would do this to the land.
I hope t’fuck if they ever convict someone for this, the sentence is harsh. Their farming payments should be pulled too
Is this the ballbags farmers burning gorse again?
It has been so dry for the past few weeks, my area got less than a quarter of the average rain in March and pretty no rain for the past few weeks, so not surprised that a fire spread so quickly. If someone started it then they should throw the book at them.
The journal couldn’t hop in a car and drive the hour for a real photo, lazy bastards
I wish we could get rid of the farmers and grow veg. I fucking hate those selfish money hungry bastards
There has been multiple incidences of fire breaking out in the mountains in recent weeks. They’re treating this particular fire as deliberate. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9dj5g2zq89o
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Apparently deliberately started
The irony of these fires is that upland sheep are only being farmed because of subsidies given to farmers by the government. They’re near worthless otherwise.
If we stopped giving these farmers subsidies, the hillsides would also not be overgrazed resulting in natural native trees growing.
The cost of this policy disaster just gets worse and worse.
Edit: upland overgrazing and burning also worsens flash flooding events.
Every year without fail this is happening in the Mournes and across Ireland’s uplands; but the Mournes seems to get it the worst.
It’s absolutely shocking and shameful someone would do this to the land.
I hope t’fuck if they ever convict someone for this, the sentence is harsh. Their farming payments should be pulled too
Is this the ballbags farmers burning gorse again?
It has been so dry for the past few weeks, my area got less than a quarter of the average rain in March and pretty no rain for the past few weeks, so not surprised that a fire spread so quickly. If someone started it then they should throw the book at them.
The journal couldn’t hop in a car and drive the hour for a real photo, lazy bastards
I wish we could get rid of the farmers and grow veg. I fucking hate those selfish money hungry bastards
There has been multiple incidences of fire breaking out in the mountains in recent weeks. They’re treating this particular fire as deliberate. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9dj5g2zq89o
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