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I stumbled upon this cause in a [tweet by the Irish Wildlife Trust](https://twitter.com/Irishwildlife/status/1467457175224303620)

2 comments

  1. All for rewilding, but within that should be an opportunity for local people to build homes (not for rent, family homes) on their land in certain cases. I’d love a cabin in the woods, a wee cottage in the wild, I have acres of land but it’s all under SAC, while tourism businesses can be built around me.

  2. Absolutely. Or at least more ways of regenerative farming
    There is a guy on twitter Irish rainforest he is based on the coast down kerry / Cork way and he has a plot of ground he has rewilded into a proper forest and is very very knowledgeable on this part of things.

    He has a herd of dexter cows on the land too and due to the grazing nature of cows they don’t damage the trees like sheep or deer would and as such he is farming in absolute equilibrium with nature

    I’m not sure how financially it works out with cap payments etc but there should definitely be payments to farm in this way

    I honestly think marginal land should be allowed to return to its natural way (as much as practical) and farmers paid to keep it this way.

    They should be told something along the lines of this land is too poor to continually improve let it rewild. You can have a stocking rate of x amount of sheep or you can stock native cows (mollies, dexter droimoinn) and when you go to kill them at the factory you get x bonus for sustainable production and also a rare breed bonus just like what was on for Aberdeen Angus and Hereford etc preciously
    There should also be some sort of calculation made that if cow numbers on a certain farm had to be reduced because the and couldn’t take it then farmers should be supplemented to make it as worthwhile as possible for them

    I think then farmers would be able to get subsidies for keeping the ground as wild as possible

    It doesn’t make sense to me to be battling with middling ground trying to keep it dry and draining it every few years etc. All you’re doing is wasting money to just repeat the job in a few years.

    This has the benefit of helping to store water on the land helping to aleviate flooding while also building up a carbon store and making more habitat for wildlife

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