Wildflower meadow protection plan 'backfires'

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29037804

Wildflower meadow protection plan 'backfires'

A bid to safeguard endangered wildflower meadows has backfired, according to an unpublished report by the watchdog English Nature.

Some 98% of English meadows have been lost to intensive farming, but the rate of loss nearly doubled after the EU said it wanted to protect grasslands.

The report says many farmers responded by digging up their meadows before tighter rules could be introduced.

(continued, farmers ain't dumb...)

[pErvinalia]

This happened here with new tree clearing laws.

[piscator]

Fucking Sauron...

[cronus]

Fucking Sauron...

I think you mean Saruman....?

[piscator]

Fucking Sauron...

I think you mean Saruman....?

Saruman was in thrall to Sauron long before orcs began felling the trees of Isengard.

[cronus]

Fucking Sauron...

I think you mean Saruman....?

Saruman was in thrall to Sauron long before orcs began felling the trees of Isengard.

He did his own thing, like the Nazis didn't need telling much....

[piscator]

Mordor wasn't particularly known known for its vast woodlands...One wonders if specific orcish behavior traits could have been better designed, as a case could be made that Mordor's virulent expansionism (and ultimate demise) had its roots in and was fueled by its cultural dependency upon firewood.

[cronus]

Mordor wasn't particularly known known for its vast woodlands...One wonders if specific orcish behavior traits could have been better designed, as a case could be made that Mordor's virulent expansionism (and ultimate demise) had its roots in and was fueled by its cultural dependency upon firewood.

You need to factor in one Ent burning equivalent to ten of the natural trees....

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Meadows don't tend to have many trees, let alone Ents. They are grassland habitats. Just saying.

[piscator]

Can you really have the one without the other in England?

[Hermit]

"In England"? What do you mean? So measures to protect meadows backfire. This is just a particular instance of a universal law. Newton's third: When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction on the first body.