As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Saturday, 14 December 2013

Couple forced off farm so it can be flooded for breeding birds, under EU rules

A couple have been told they must leave the 60-acre estate they have farmed for 30 years so it can be flooded to boost rare bird populations, under EU regulations. A couple have been told they must leave the 60-acre estate they have farmed for 30 years so it can be flooded to boost rare bird populations, under EU regulations.
A couple have been forced off the land they have farmed for 30 years and planned to pass on to their sons so it can be flooded for breeding birds under EU laws.

Former Army officer Kenneth Hicks said he and his wife Deidre have been told they must leave the 60-acre estate by Eurocrats who put the “rights of birds above humans”.

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