(Some of the)Aim(s):
- To conserve wildlife and biodiversity
- To improve and extend wildlife habitats by promoting specific management techniques to landowners.
Government offered a 10-year agreement to pay landowners who followed the management techniques that were suggested. For example
- Regenerating hedgerows
- Leave grassy margins around the edges of fields where wildflowers could grow
- Graze upland areas to keep down bracken (plant)
In 2000, there were 10,000 agreements in England
Since the introduction of the scheme, various species have begun to rebuild in numbers. For example (birds)
- Stone Curlew
- Black Grouse
- Bitten
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