Letters: "Encouraging landscape-scale nature-friendly farming and nature recovery schemes is crucial"

Richard Broadbent, an environmental lawyer at Freeths, writes that landowners require certainty, clarity and careful forward planning if we are to reverse the chronic biodiversity decline we have seen over the past 100 years

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Letters: "Encouraging landscape-scale nature-friendly farming and nature recovery schemes is crucial"

Biodiversity decline Encouraging landscape-scale nature-friendly farming and nature recovery schemes is crucial if we are to reverse the chronic biodiversity decline we have seen across this country...

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