Reversal of Setaside ban?

After a very short period of having banned areas of setaside land, which had allowed for good insect, bee and wildlife habitat, Defra is now questioning whether it will be necessary to reintroduce setasides. This is as a consequence of reports by the RSPB that bird numbers in the UK have plummeted in the last year.

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The countryside is not a safe place for bees.

In Germany last year, as in many countries throughout the world, the countryside was not a safe place for honeybees. This year the situation has become critical.
On 6th July 2008 six German apiarists moved their 30,000 bees into Munich city, about 500 km south of Berlin.
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Save the honeybee, save our countryside.

• save our honeybees


• save our birds and insects


• save our wildlife


• save our rivers and watercourses


• save our ecology

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Survival of honeybees threatened by agricultural pesticides

For more information on the impact of agricultural pesticides on insects, wildlife, humans and the environment, please visit www.afewviews.blogspot.com.

Corporate Influence on face of British Agriculture and Landscape.

Which environment would you rather have as the agricultural land of Britain, that in the top and second photo, or the bottom picture?
The last photograph shows the vision of the future if our government fulfills its ambition for vast acreages of biofuel crops and GM crops. No hedges, trees, set aside areas for wildlife habitat.

For information on these political plans, see the blog 'Genetically modified crops,secrecy, lack of democracy,UK Government.'

GM crops, flawed arguments,flawed ethics.

The photographs on this blog are a record of late twentieth/early twenty first century agricultural landscapes in the UK. Big agribusiness corporates and the government wish to change the face of agriculture, and in the process this will mean the destruction of the environment, eco systems, wildlife habitats and will pose a threat to human health.

Brutal corporate pressure is forcing farmers throughout the world to abandon the tradition of thousands of years of farming practice, (using crop seeds which are best for their regions), and to replace this genetic diversity with the reductive and dangerous GM seeds, which they are left with no choice but to buy.
In Europe we have been given an opportunity to resist this pressure, but for how long, because the pressure is unrelenting?

In each of these photographs we can see the varied landscape elements which each contribute their own function within agriculture. The circles of woodland in the middle of fields, and buffer zones of grass around the fields provide habitat for birds and other wildlife. The borders are also vital buffers between sprayed crops and paths and homes. These are elements which are already being destroyed to use every last square inch for the growing of biofuels, as well as food.

For information about GM's visit the post "GM crops pose an issue of universal human rights."