Farmer Combats Flooding by Returning Creeks to Nature: ‘Phenomenal Wildlife’ \ stacker news ~A_bit_of_Good

In the UK, farmers are combatting flooding by returning areas of their farms to a more natural state, and seeing the benefits not only in wildlife returning but in flood mitigation.

James Robinson, an intergenerational farmer from Cumbria in the northwest, has worked together with the Ullswater Catchment Management CIC to turn a number of areas of his farm into wetland havens where birds and invertebrates have come back in phenomenal numbers.

“People seem to like this model,” said Danny Teasdale, the CEO of Ullswater Catchment Management, in a long, on-site interview conducted by DEFRA.

“And then farmers talk and then someone else will get in touch. We are growing. We’ve been able to employ local contractors, and any money that comes into the CIC goes locally as well,” he said.

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/farmer-combats-flooding-by-returning-creeks-to-nature-wildlife-that-has-come-is-phenomenal/

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OgFOMK 19 Jan

As long as the farmer can still produce for himself and his customers then this is good. I'm sceptical because local governments in the United States and in particular my Commonwealth of Virginia, are incentivized by the federal government grants to impose wetlands acts on small business and property owners. Meanwhile the federal government has huge shipyards, military bases, airports, and military weapon depots that take up billions of hectares of marsh and wetlands.

If the farmer can manage his own land the way he wants them it is good.