"It allows nature to thrive, taking carbon from the air and boosting health." Tear Fund (part of DEC - Disasters Emergency Committee)
We can expand the Clent Hills Country Park into a 32 sq Kms Regional Park as part of the new W Mids National Park. For farming, recreation and re-creation of habitats to boost biodiversity.
It is vital that our 32 sq Kms Golden Green Triangle in that corner between the Black Country and Brum, with the two 1,000 feet high Clent Hills, is upgraded, invigorated and protected from built development. To address the Covid, Climate, Ecological, Nature disasters.
Not a single hedgerow, it seems, has been laid to rejuvenate even one section. Instead there are gaps galore. Fences and barbed wire are taking over. Hedging trees must be planted to absorb carbon.
Every Home Office wood must be handed over to the Woodland Trust for their care, maintenance and to be open to the public. In this way, these precious woods can be restored and be a carbon sink.
Every field is needed as part of the national effort to feed humans before animals to feed humans. Farming in tune with nature is essential and farming using fewer finite fossil fuels, too. Have more people working on the land. In this way, slow the Climate, Nature disaster. AND SLOW THE ROT!
Fewer fields for horses and more for food! Reverse horsiculture!
No fields for built development. Keep smaller, much warmer, practical homes to the conurbation outside the three sides of the triangle. In this way, to help ourselves to get out of the warming greenhouse.
The hundreds of miles of public highway paths must be upgraded with every stile made safe for walkers and runners. Far too many paths are muddy in wet weather and almost every stile is in need of replacement or repair. The councils and the WMCA must work with the farmers and landowners to get them up to standard. Funds must be used to incentivise them.
Tim Weller 27 March 2021
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