Rewilding: farmland for hedge funds and Nazi killer species?

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When the Nazis Tried to Bring Animals Back From Extinction
Their ideology of genetic purity extended to aspirations about reviving a pristine landscape with ancient animals and forests
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Aurochs
Aurochs illustration from Sigismund von Herberstein's book published in 1556 (Wikimedia Commons)
By Lorraine Boissoneault
SMITHSONIANMAG.COM
MARCH 31, 2017
Born to the director of the Berlin Zoo, Lutz Heck seemed destined for the world of wildlife. But instead of simply protecting animals, Heck had a darker relationship with them: he hunted and experimented with them.

In the new movie The Zookeeper’s Wife (based on a nonfiction book of the same title by Diane Ackerman), Heck is the nemesis of Warsaw zookeepers Antonina and Jan Zabinski, who risk their lives to hide Jews in cages that once held animals. All told, the couple smuggled around 300 Jewish people through their zoo. Not only was Heck tasked with pillaging the Warsaw Zoo for animals that could be sent to Germany, he was also at work on project that began before the Nazis came to power: reinvent nature by bringing extinct species back to life.

Lutz and his younger brother, Heinz, grew up surrounded by animals and immersed in animal breeding, beginning with small creatures like rabbits. At the same time that the boys learned more about these practices, zoologists around Europe were engaged in debates about the role of humans in preventing extinction and creating new species.

“It was kicked off by all kinds of what we would consider quite weird experiments. People were trying to breed ligers and tigons,” says Clemens Driessen, a researcher in cultural geography at Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands.

While breeders’ imaginations ran wild with thoughts of new species to create, closer to home, European bison, known as wisent, were going extinct in the wild. Scientists began to consider the role of zoos could play in keeping the species alive—and in Germany, to combine those answers with theories about the supposed “purity” of long-gone landscapes.

Should wisent be revitalized using American bison as breeding stock? Would the resulting offspring still be considered proper bison? As they grew older, the Heck brothers were immersed in these same questions.

According to an article written by Driessen and co-author Jamie Lorimer, Heinz saw the extinction of the wisent as the natural progression of the result of nomadic tribes overhunting. His brother, on the other hand, became more and more interested in what he considered to be “primeval German game”—an interest increasingly shared by Nazis who sought a return to a mythic German past free of racial impurities.

In his autobiography Animals: My Adventure Lutz describes being fascinated by animals he associated with that mythical past, especially wisent and the formidable aurochs.

Lutz Heck with a scaly anteater, 1940
Lutz Heck with a scaly anteater, 1940 (Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo / Alamy Stock Photo)
Aurochs were large, horned cattle that went extinct in 1627 from excessive hunting and competition from domesticated cattle. The brothers believed they could recreate the animals through back-breeding: choosing existing cattle species for the right horn shape, coloration and behavior, then breeding them until they had something approximating the original animal. This was before the discovery of DNA’s double helix, so everything the brothers looked to for information on aurochs was from archaeological finds and written records. They believed that since modern cattle descended from aurochs, different cattle breeds contained the traces of their more ancient lineage.

“What my brother and I now had to do was to unite in a single breeding stock all those characteristics of the wild animal which are now found only separately in individual animals,” Heck wrote in his book. Their plan was the inverse of Russian experiments to create domesticated foxes through selective breeding—rather than breed forward with particular traits in mind, they thought they could breed backwards to eliminate the aspects of their phenotype that made them domesticated. (Similar experiments have been picked back up by modern scientists hoping to create aurochs once more, and by scientists trying to recreate the extinct quagga. Researchers disagree over whether this type of de-extinction is possible.)

The brothers traveled the continent, selecting everything from fighting cattle in Spain to Hungarian steppe cattle to create their aurochs. They studied skulls and cave paintings to decide what aurochs should look like, and both claimed success at reviving aurochs by the mid-1930s. Their cattle were tall with large horns and aggressive personalities, capable of surviving with limited human care, and in modern times would come to be called Heck cattle. The animals were spread around the country, living everywhere from the Munich Zoo to a forest on the modern-day border of Poland and Russia.

But despite their shared interest in zoology and animal husbandry, the brothers’ paths diverged greatly as the Nazis rose to power. In the early 1930s, Heinz was among the first people interned at Dachau as a political prisoner for suspected membership in the Communist Party and his brief marriage to a Jewish woman. Though Heinz was released, it was clear he would never be a great beneficiary of Nazi rule, nor did he seem to support their ideology focused on the purity of nature and the environment.

Lutz joined the Nazi Party early in its reign, and earned himself a powerful ally: Hermann Göring, Adolf Hilter’s second-in-command. The two men bonded over a shared interest in hunting and recreating ancestral German landscapes. Göring amassed political titles like trading cards, serving in many positions at once: he became the prime minister of Prussia, commander in chief of the Luftwaffe, and Reich Hunt Master and Forest Master. It was in this last position that he bestowed the title of Nature Protection Authority to Lutz, a close friend, in 1938.

Hermann Göring
Hermann Göring (Wikimedia Commons)
“Göring saw the opportunity to make nature protection part of his political empire,” says environmental historian Frank Uekotter. “He also used the funds [from the Nature Protection Law of 1935] for his estate.” The law, which created nature reserves, allowed for the designation of natural monuments, and removed the protection of private property rights, had been up for consideration for years before the Nazis came to power. Once the Nazis no longer had the shackles of the democratic process to hold them back, Göring quickly pushed the law through to enhance his prestige and promote his personal interest in hunting.

Lutz continued his back-breeding experiments with support from Göring, experimenting with tarpans (wild horses, whose Heck-created descendants still exist today) and wisent. Lutz’s creations were released in various forests and hunting reserves, where Göring could indulge his wish to recreate mythic scenes from the German epic poem Nibelungenlied (think the German version of Beowulf), in which the Teutonic hero Siegfried kills dragons and other creatures of the forest.

“Göring had a very peculiar interest in living a kind of fantasy of carrying spears and wearing peculiar dress,” Driessen says. “He had this eerie combination of childish fascination [with the poem] with the power of a murderous country behind it.” In practical terms, this meant seizing land from Poland, especially the vast wilderness of Białowieża Forest, then using it to create his own hunting reserves. This fit into the larger Nazi ideology of lebensraum, or living space, and a return to the heroic past.

“On the one hand National Socialism embraced modernity and instrumental rationality; something found in the Nazi emphasis on engineering, eugenics, experimental physics and applied mathematics,” write geographers Trevor Barnes and Claudio Minca. “On the other hand was National Socialism’s other embrace: a dark anti-modernity, the anti-enlightenment. Triumphed were tradition, a mythic past, irrational sentiment and emotion, mysticism, and a cultural essentialism that turned easily into dogma, prejudice, and much, much worse.”

In 1941 Lutz went to the Warsaw Zoo to oversee its transition to German hands. After selecting the species that would be most valuable to German zoos, he organized a private hunting party to dispatch with the rest. “These animals could not be recuperated for any meaningful reason, and Heck, with his companions, enjoyed killing them,” writes Jewish studies scholar Kitty Millet.

Millet sees an ominous connection to the Nazi ideology of racial purity. “The assumption was that the Nazis were the transitional state to the recovery of Aryan being,” Millet wrote in an email. In order to recover that racial purity, says Millet, “nature had to be transformed from a polluted space to a Nazi space.”

While Driessen sees little direct evidence of Lutz engaging with those ideas, at least in his published research, Lutz did correspond with Eugen Fischer, one of the architects of Nazi eugenics.

But his work creating aurochs and wisent for Göring shared the same conclusion as other Nazi projects. Allied forces killed the wild animals as they closed in on the Germans at the end of the war. Some Heck cattle descended from those that survived the end of the war in zoos still exist, and their movement around Europe has become a source of controversy that renews itself every few years. They’ve also been tagged as a possible component of larger European rewilding programs, such as the one envisioned by Stichting Taurus, a Dutch conservationist group Stichting Taurus.

With scientists like the Dutch and others considering the revival of extinct wildlife to help restore disturbed environments, Uekotter thinks Heck’s role in the Nazi Party can serve as a cautionary tale. “There is no value-neutral position when you talk about the environment. You need partners and, [compared to gridlock that happens in democracy,] there is a lure of the authoritarian regime that things are all of a sudden very simple,” Uekotter says. “The Nazi experience shows what you can end up with if you fall for this in a naïve way.”

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Lorraine Boissoneault is a contributing writer to SmithsonianMag.com covering history and archaeology. She has previously written for The Atlantic, Salon, Nautilus and others. She is also the author of The Last Voyageurs: Retracing La Salle's Journey Across America. Website: http://www.lboissoneault.com/
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Rewilding will make Britain a rainforest nation again
George Monbiot
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It will take vision and a willingness to confront vested interests, but we can restore our trashed ecosystems
Wed 25 Sep 2019 06.00 BST
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The forests still burn, but the world now looks away. In both the Amazon basin and the rainforests of Indonesia, the world-scorching inferno rages on, already forgotten by most of the media. Intricate living systems, species that took millions of years to evolve, are being incinerated in moments, then replaced with monocultures. Giant plumes of carbon tip us further into climate breakdown. And we’re not even talking about it.
World losing area of forest the size of the UK each year, report finds
But underneath the grief and frustration, I also feel disquiet. We rightly call on other nations to protect their stunning places. But where are our rainforests? I mean this both metaphorically and literally. Out of 218 nations, the UK ranks 189th for the intactness of its living systems. Having trashed our own wildlife, our excessive demand for meat, animal feed, timber, minerals and fossil fuels helps lay waste the rest of the world.
Among our missing ecosystems are rainforests. Rainforests are not confined to the tropics: a good definition is forest wet enough to support epiphytes – plants that grow on other plants. Particularly in the west of Britain, where tiny fragments persist, you can find trees covered in rich growths of a fern called polypody, mosses and lichens, and flowering plants climbing the lower trunks. Learning that Britain is a rainforest nation astounds us only because we have so little left.
We now know that, alongside keeping fossil fuels in the ground, natural climate solutions – using the mass restoration of nature to draw down carbon from the air – offer perhaps the last remaining chance to prevent more than 1.5C, or even 2C, of global heating. Saving the remaining rainforests and other rich ecosystems, while restoring those we have lost, is not just a nice idea: our lives may depend on it. But in countries like the UK, we urge others to act while overlooking our own disasters.
Foreigners I meet are often flabbergasted by the state of our national parks. They see the sheepwrecked deserts and grousetrashed moors and ask: “What are you protecting here?” In the name of “cultural heritage” we allow harsh commercial interests, embedded in the modern economy but dependent on public money, to complete the kind of ecological cleansing we lament in the Amazon. Sheep farming has done for our rainforests what cattle ranching is doing to Brazil’s. Then we glorify these monocultures – the scoured, treeless hills – as “wild” and “unspoilt”.
The conservation groups have manifestly failed to translate our love of nature into action
When the International Union for Conservation of Nature sought to classify our national parks, it had to invent a new category. Most of the world’s national parks are category I or II: set aside principally for nature. But all of ours are category V: places where, in practice, business comes first and nature last. Much of the land in our national parks is systematically burned. In the northern parks, this destruction is wreaked by grouse estates, and in Snowdonia by farmers. But on Dartmoor and Exmoor, the park authorities do it themselves, torching wildlife, roasting the soil, pouring carbon into the skies: everything we condemn elsewhere.
The government’s new Landscapes Review is better than I expected, but its positive proposals are in no way commensurate with our ecological and climate crises. It suggests that England’s national parks and other protected landscapes should “have a renewed mission to recover and enhance nature … simply sustaining what we have is not nearly good enough”. But it does not argue that any of our parks should aim for something better than category V. Nor does it recommend that burning should cease, or that farming should withdraw from some places to allow rainforests and other rich habitats to recover. Where is the ambition our emergencies demand?
We urgently need more trees, but we appear to believe that the only means of restoring them is planting. We have a national obsession with tree planting, which is in danger of becoming as tokenistic as bamboo toothbrushes and cotton tote bags. In many places rewilding, or natural regeneration – allowing trees to seed and spread themselves – is much faster and more effective, and tends to produce far richer habitats.
Burning gorse on Dartmoor. Photograph: Marc Hill/Alamy
All over the country, I see “conservation woodlands” that look nothing like ecological restoration and everything like commercial forestry: the ground blasted with glyphosate (a herbicide that kills everything), trees planted in straight rows, in plastic tree guards attached with cable ties to treated posts. It looks hideous, it takes decades to begin to resemble a natural forest and, in remote parts of the nation, it is often the primary cause of plastic litter, much of which is never recovered. There are no woodland creation grants in this country supporting natural regeneration: public money is pegged exclusively to the number of trees planted. This is one of the reasons for the shocking failure to meet the UK’s targets for new woodlands.
The government should follow the hierarchical approach suggested by the conservationist Steve Jones. It should fund natural regeneration wherever possible. Where trees struggle to establish themselves, it should finance assisted regeneration (clearing competing vegetation). Only where those options won’t work should it offer grants for tree planting. But while nature loves a mess, officialdom abhors one: instead of natural exuberance it seeks neat industrial rows.
Don’t expect much help from politicians. Michael Gove’s successor as environment secretary, Theresa Villiers, seems tongue-tied, apparently terrified of offending vested interests. Labour’s vote for a Green New Deal, with a 2030 deadline for decarbonisation (20 years before the government’s) is exciting. But we now need to see its commitments on industrial emissions matched by ambitious proposals for ecological restoration.
Grow your own forest: how to plant trees to help save the planet
Nor are the big conservation groups filling the void. Ours is an extraordinary situation: a nation of nature lovers, obsessed by wildlife programmes, represented by gigantic NGOs, but apparently incapable of preventing the precipitous decline of wildlife and habitats. The conservation groups have manifestly failed to translate our love of nature into action.
They betray their radical roots. The National Trust arose from the Commons Preservation Society, that tore down fences to return land to the people. Now it allows the forces it once contested to ride roughshod over its land, allowing trail hunts and exclusive grouse shoots to erode the sense of national ownership. On its Exmoor estate, in the resource book it publishes for school teachers, it celebrates burning the land. The RSPB was founded by women seeking to ban the import of birds’ plumage for hats – they eventually succeeded. Now, as independent ecologists raise massive petitions to ban driven grouse shooting, the RSPB undermines their campaigns by calling for this devastating practice to be, er, licensed. Hesitation and appeasement reign.
We should continue to mobilise against the destruction of the world’s great habitats, and its terrifying implications. But the most persuasive argument we can make is to show we mean it, by restoring our own lost wonders.
• George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist

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Simply put, radical environmentalism, a.k.a. the GREEN MOVEMENT, DEEP ECOLOGY, or REWILDING, is a philosophy that elevates nature over man. Hitler incorporated this naturalistic philosophy in his infamous treatise, Mein Kampf, where he blamed the entire Jewish race for what he called “the pacification of Nature”.

According to Hitler, the Jews, and to a lesser extent, the Judeo-Christian ethic that stemmed from a belief in a “transcendent God”, were responsible for wrecking the environmental health of the planet. Hitler believed that Jews and Christians accomplished this evil deed through the promotion of capitalism, international commerce, and/or the communitarian values of communism.

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THE NAZI ROOTS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT
On November 30, 2017 By Steve Busch
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Simply put, radical environmentalism, a.k.a. the GREEN MOVEMENT, DEEP ECOLOGY, or REWILDING, is a philosophy that elevates nature over man. Hitler incorporated this naturalistic philosophy in his infamous treatise, Mein Kampf, where he blamed the entire Jewish race for what he called “the pacification of Nature”.

According to Hitler, the Jews, and to a lesser extent, the Judeo-Christian ethic that stemmed from a belief in a “transcendent God”, were responsible for wrecking the environmental health of the planet. Hitler believed that Jews and Christians accomplished this evil deed through the promotion of capitalism, international commerce, and/or the communitarian values of communism.

Hitler’s anti-materialistic, anti-human, indeed anti-Christ philosophy is very much evident in the modern environmental movement. Deep ecologists, a.k.a “radical environmentalists”, seek many of the same goals Hitler sought. Primarily they intend to keep and/or return as much of the planet as possible to a pre-historic or primitive state completely untouched and untrammeled by human beings. For the sake of simplicity, I refer to this agenda as “REWILDING”.

“In fact, the Nazis actually believed that the sick modern world of both international capitalism and communism, led by Jews and spread by Christianity, was entirely disobedient to Nature.”
[Mark Musser- Hitler’s Green Killing Machine c. 2010]

The NAZI’s believed that wild animals and nature needed more space. They initiated plans to depopulate and REWILD large swaths of Europe and replace domestic cattle with wild species such as the Auroch. Much of the NAZI’s genetic research was dedicated to replicating primeval animals of the past. Ironically, in their obsession with the veneration of nature, they treated human beings, in particular the Jews, worse than animals.

“Their ideology of genetic purity extended to aspirations about reviving a pristine landscape with ancient animals and forests.”
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/w ... gExszwp.99

Today we see “Smart Growth” and restrictive land use laws based on NAZI notions of “sustainability”. Ironically, the word “ecology” was coined in 1866 by the racist German zoologist Ernst Haeckel. Suffice it to say that Hitler approved of many of Haeckel’s Darwinist concepts, especially as they related to the Jews. Even after the defeat of NAZISM, subsequent generations continue to be programmed to believe that stifling human development in order to “save” fish and frogs or some species of vole is the right and necessary thing to do. We have been programmed to believe that shutting down the timber industry for the sake of non-endangered birds, or promoting large non-endangered carnivores such as wolves and grizzly bears to the detriment of human beings, is right, noble, and just.

“The Reich Nature Protection Act even allowed the expropriation of private property without compensation for the sake of the environment. Sustainable forestry practices called Dauerwald, which ironically means “eternal” forest, were also introduced at the federal level.”
[Mark Musser- Hitler’s Green Killing Machine c. 2010]

Advocates of REWILDING are fond of claiming that “nature needs half”, implying that human beings occupy too much space and therefore we must limit our planetary “footprint” in order to preserve a “sustainable” percentage of the earth’s habitat for wildlife and fish, an amount which only they are competent to define. Climate change is blamed on capitalism and those who hold to a Judeo-Christian ethic or outmoded concepts of industry and “private property”. The extinction of wildlife species is blamed on those who hold to the mindset that man is the pinnacle of creation and nature exists to meet man’s needs. The Deep Ecology answer to all of the world’s perceived “problems” is to reduce human impacts by radically reducing the human population, curtailing development, and re-educating (read: programming) and controlling those who are allowed to remain.

But here are the facts. Over half of the entire human population currently occupies a mere 1% of the earth’s land surface. The perception that human beings are virtually everywhere is based on the fact that we are a communal species that choose to live in settled landscapes where other people, i.e. civilization, if not right out the front door, is close at hand. While the total land surface area of the earth is just under 58 million square miles, approximately 33% is desert and 24% is mountainous. Subtracting this largely empty and/or uninhabitable land from the total land area leaves about 25 million square miles of habitable land.

Half of the total human population lives on less than 1% of the land area of the planet. [Map Info courtesy of NASA]
Our urban centers are often surrounded by agricultural land that actually covers less than 11% of the earth’s land surface. Domesticated animals grazing on open undeveloped land or pastures may account for up to another 20%. That means human activity, in all forms, takes place on less than 1/3 of the earth’s land surface. The fact is, nearly 2/3 of earth’s land surface is very sparsely populated and is considered too hostile of an environment for human habitation or agricultural production. Thus, the REWILDERS already have far more land than they clam to want. In fact, they are GAINING EVEN MORE LAND EVERY DAY!

According to U.S. Bureau of Census statistics, the majority of rural counties in the United States are continuing to lose population while urban centers continue to grow. Over the last several decades, rural land abandonment in Europe has reached problematic levels as urbanization continues to swallow more and more of the population.

Those who think that urban sprawl and unchecked development are the greatest threats to the health of the planet may want to look at the facts. According to the 2014 FAO Global Land Cover SHARE database, a mere 0.6% of Earth’s land surface is defined as “artificial surfaces”. Artificial surfaces include any land surface area that has an “artificial covering” as a result of human activities. This would include any type of construction or infrastructure such as cities, towns, dams, roads, mines, quarries, urban parks, sports fields, etc.

Think about this. Over half of humanity lives on a mere 1% of the earth’s surface while development (infrastructure) covers just 0.6% percent. Let’s use Canada as an example to try to put this in perspective. Canada has a land area of roughly 3.8 million square miles. Nearly 90% of the population lives in only four provinces, with more than 40% living in only one province (Ontario). The vast majority of the Canadian population resides within 100 miles of the U.S. border. That leaves vast areas of unsettled land available for nature. Yet we are repeatedly told by the REWILDING advocates that “nature needs half”, as if humanity has somehow already managed to overrun the entire planet.

There is far more to the REWILDING agenda than meets the eye. Just like their NAZI mentors, modern environmentalists seek the power to create a world of their own making. They will be merciless in carrying out their eco-fascist agenda if they are allowed to succeed in their fanatical quest to obtain complete political control.

Sources for this article:

Mark Musser – “Hitler’s Green Killing Machine” c. 2010

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Will Reanimation of Extinct Large Carnivores Drive Humans From Western USA?
Rewilding Network—Saving Globe Through Big Wilderness: Another UN Agenda 21 Hoax

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By Kelly OConnell —— Bio and Archives--August 7, 2012

Attempts to fathom the United Nation’s “Sustainable Development” program Agenda 21 mean continually peering behind the facade of a thousand “harmless” organizations and programs. This because Agenda 21 is ostensibly socialist dogma seeking creation of world collectivist hegemony on land use, human population size, capitalism and consumption of electricity and water. Since transparent socialism was unable to ever attract a majority in America, these programs must always fly below the radar.

Ironically, Agenda 21 is itself transparently directed towards extreme remedies for the “problem” of mankind. Such ideas as reducing human populations and relocating them near industry, while revoking property ownership rights are the remedies proposed for humanity’s errors. In particular “re-wilding”—or returning huge tracts of land to pristine status while restoring all former animal groups—is one of the most dramatically anti-human ideas ever conceived, defined by one author:

Rewilding is “the scientific argument for restoring big wilderness based on the regulatory roles of large predators,” according to Soul and Reed Noss in their landmark 1998 Wild Earth article “Rewilding and Biodiversity.”

Rewilding is ultimately about property rights. In transferring large tracts of land (aka Big Wilderness) into government hands it thereby cancels any rights of the original owners. This is, in fact, the entire goal of rewilding large, dangerous carnivores—to take away mankind’s property rights to big parcels of land so the elite caste might macro-manage earth according to their dictates. In this way, progressives like eco-terrorist godfather Dave Foreman hope to embargo all constitutional rights and drive mankind into the cold, hopeless servility of the state.
I. What is “Rewilding”?

The term “rewilding” was coined by Dave Foreman, founder of Earth First!—one of the most radical and violent environmentalists in history. Foreman’s book, Rewilding North America: A Vision For Conservation In The 21St Century, is a primary codex for those seeking a radical reduction of humanity’s presence on earth. The Rewilding Institute elucidates Dave Foreman’s book:

Three major scientific arguments constitute rewilding, justifying emphasis on large predators.

The structure, resilience, and diversity of ecosystems are maintained by “top-down” ecological (trophic) interactions initiated by top predators.
Wide-ranging predators usually require large cores of protected landscape for foraging, seasonal movements, and other needs; they justify bigness.
Connectivity is also required because core reserves are typically not large enough in most regions; they must be linked to insure long-term viability of wide-ranging species…

In short, the rewilding argument posits that large predators are often instrumental in maintaining the integrity of ecosystems. Overall, large predators require big space and connectivity.

A congressional example is found in U.S. Congress - H.R. 5101 Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act of 2010, calling for “wild animal bridges and tunnels, and increasing roadless areas.”
II. Rewilding Mission: Reintroducing Large Carnivores

It’s no surprise the rewilding plan to reintroduce expurgated classes of large carnivores onto the American continent will drive out humans. Further, this expulsion of humans from vast land tracts ought not be seen as anything but the ultimate intent of the rewilding project, as its planner admit. This large carnivore reintroduction goal is explained here:

If native large carnivores have been killed out of a region, their reintroduction and recovery is the heart of a conservation strategy. Wolves, cougars, lynx, wolverines, grizzly and black bears, jaguars, sea otters, and other top carnivores need restoration throughout North America in ecologically effective densities in their natural ranges where suitable habitat remains or can be restored. Without the goal of rewilding for large areas with large carnivores, we are closing our eyes to what conservation really means—and demands.

III. Reintroducing Extinct Megafauna—Pleistocene Rewilding

Perhaps the most jaw-dropping part of the rewilding plan involves reintroducing long-gone American animal groups back onto the North American continent. This could happen in several ways. The first would be to reintroduce former indigenous species who once roamed our land—such as elephants and the (wooly) rhinoceros. The second, reminiscent of a sci-fi movie, would be to find DNA materials to recreate extinct animal groups. For example, under this plan, well-preserved extinct animals—such as glacier-bound woolly mammoths, recently disappeared passenger pigeons, or the La Brea Tarpits’ saber toothed cats could be raised as fetuses from scratch. On this Science Daily published: A Plan For Reintroducing Megafauna To North America:

Dozens of megafauna (large animals over 100 pounds)—such as giant tortoises, horses, elephants, and cheetah—went extinct in North America13,000 years ago during the end of the Pleistocene. As is the case today in Africa and Asia, these megafauna likely played keystone ecological roles via predation, herbivory, and other processes. What are the consequences of losing such important components of America’s natural heritage?

In The American Naturalist, 12 scientists provide a detailed proposal for the restoration of North America’s lost megafauna. Using the same species from different locales or closely related species as analogs, their project “Pleistocene Rewilding” is conceived as carefully managed experiments in an attempt to learn about and partially restore important natural processes to North American ecosystems present for millennia until humans played a significant role in their demise 13,000 years ago.

As to the cloning of extinct magafauna, one writer says this—The Mammoth in Glen Canyon:

French explorer Bernard Buigues and Larry Agenbroad, Northern Arizona University hope that Jarkov Wooly Mammoth sitting inside a 23-ton block of ice will contain flesh sample with some perfectly preserved DNA. That and some proven cloning technology could resurrect a long-gone species.

What Buigues and his team would do is something similar to the process that created the famous sheep Dolly: extracting the nucleus of one adult mammoth cell and inserting it into an empty egg cell. The embryo would then be implanted in the uterus of an Asian elephant, the mammoth’s closest living relative, a surrogate mother that would gestate it as its own but without transferring to the baby any of the elephant’s genes.

IV. Goals of Rewilding

The goals of Rewilding are staggering, summed up at The Wildlands Project:

The Wildlands Project goal is to set aside approximately 50% of the North American continent (Turtle Island) as “wild land” for the preservation of biological diversity.

The project seeks this by creating “reserve networks” across the continent. Reserves are made up of the following:
Cores, created from public lands such as National Forest and Parks
Buffers, often created from private land adjoining the cores to provide additional protection
Corridors, a mix of public and private lands usually following along rivers and wildlife migration routes
The primary characteristics of core areas are large size (100,000 to 25 million acres), allowing for little, if any, human use.
The primary characteristics of buffers are that they allow for limited human use so long as they are “managed with native biodiversity as a preeminent concern.”
Moral and ethical guidelines for the Wildlands Project are based on the philosophy of Deep Ecology. (Minimization of personal property and possessions)
The platform of Deep Ecology is summarized as follows:
All life (human and non-human) has equal value.
Resource consumption above what is needed to supply “vital” human needs is immoral.
Human population must be reduced
Western civilization must radically change present economic, technological, and ideological structures.
Believers have an obligation to try to implement the necessary changes.

V. Anarcho Rewilding: Green Nihilism

Rewilding exposes roots of doctrinaire Marxism. For example, the final stage of Marx’s Dialectic of History is the emergence of a benign anarchy. The Green movement therefore pushes anarcho-rewilding as a way to sow chaos into human history to cause anarchy to result. Says one site:

Rewilding is the process of undoing domestication. In green anarchism and anarcho-primitivism, humans are said to be “domesticated” by civilization. Supporters of such human rewilding argue that through the process of domestication, our wildness has been tamed and taken from us. Rewilding, then, is about overcoming our domestication and returning to our innate wildness. Though often associated with primitive skills and relearning knowledge of wild plants and animals, it emphasizes primal living as a holistic reality rather than just a number of skills or specific type of knowledge. Rewilding is most associated with green anarchy and anarcho-primitivism or anti-civilization anarchy in general…

VI. Criticisms of Rewilding:

A fair analysis of rewilding efforts exposes profound problems in the doctrine and practice. Here are a few obvious issues.
A. Danger

Rewilding would create clear danger for any residents of North America, especially with the reintroduction of large carnivores from Africa or Asia—such as lions and cheetahs. This risk would only increase with reanimation and release of such exotic beasts as extinct saber-toothed tigers.
B. Anachronistic Heresy

It is a specie of the Naturalist Fallacy that North America should be returned to the habitat existing 13,000 years ago before mankind became preeminent. This fallacy claims that everything in its “natural state” is better than any alternative. But if that were the case, creating vaccines against such dangerous menaces like whooping cough and polio would be immoral or stupid. Further, such attempts at re-balancing a long-dead ecosystem could create an environmental disaster of epic proportions, given how little we know of these extinct beasts, their habits and diseases.
C. Agenda 21 & Property Rights

Perhaps the most pernicious aspects of the entire rewilding plan is its ideological origin. For rewilding is simply an application of Agenda 21, the UN’s audacious attempt to turn the globe socialist (see A Brief History & Description of Agenda 21). So no natural logic or necessity supports the plan, just simplistic Marxism. Further, to accept this policy means giving up our constitutional rights to own property and for due process of law. Finally, socialism never works in actual practice so why adopt a failed ideology?

Many progressive groups, such as the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, toil to put vast stretches of American land under the whip-hand of government control (see Shady Details of Marxist “Earth” Organizations: NM Wilderness Alliance). And the Rewilding Institute’s demand for large carnivores naturally needs massive land tracts to hope to succeed—what a coincidence!
D. Anti-biblical

Finally, rewilding is a stunning rebuke to the Genesis account where God gives mankind charge of the earth, aka the Dominion Mandate, found in Genesis 1:26-28:

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”



Kelly OConnell -- Bio and Archives

Kelly O’Connell is an author and attorney. He was born on the West Coast, raised in Las Vegas, and matriculated from the University of Oregon. After laboring for the Reformed Church in Galway, Ireland, he returned to America and attended law school in Virginia, where he earned a JD and a Master’s degree in Government. He spent a stint working as a researcher and writer of academic articles at a Miami law school, focusing on ancient law and society. He has also been employed as a university Speech & Debate professor. He then returned West and worked as an assistant district attorney. Kelly is now is a private practitioner with a small law practice in New Mexico.

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THE NAZI ROOTS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT
On November 30, 2017 By Steve Busch
https://oldmanoftheski.com/2017/11/30/t ... -movement/

Simply put, radical environmentalism, a.k.a. the GREEN MOVEMENT, DEEP ECOLOGY, or REWILDING, is a philosophy that elevates nature over man. Hitler incorporated this naturalistic philosophy in his infamous treatise, Mein Kampf, where he blamed the entire Jewish race for what he called “the pacification of Nature”.

According to Hitler, the Jews, and to a lesser extent, the Judeo-Christian ethic that stemmed from a belief in a “transcendent God”, were responsible for wrecking the environmental health of the planet. Hitler believed that Jews and Christians accomplished this evil deed through the promotion of capitalism, international commerce, and/or the communitarian values of communism.

Hitler’s anti-materialistic, anti-human, indeed anti-Christ philosophy is very much evident in the modern environmental movement. Deep ecologists, a.k.a “radical environmentalists”, seek many of the same goals Hitler sought. Primarily they intend to keep and/or return as much of the planet as possible to a pre-historic or primitive state completely untouched and untrammeled by human beings. For the sake of simplicity, I refer to this agenda as “REWILDING”.

“In fact, the Nazis actually believed that the sick modern world of both international capitalism and communism, led by Jews and spread by Christianity, was entirely disobedient to Nature.”
[Mark Musser- Hitler’s Green Killing Machine c. 2010]

The NAZI’s believed that wild animals and nature needed more space. They initiated plans to depopulate and REWILD large swaths of Europe and replace domestic cattle with wild species such as the Auroch. Much of the NAZI’s genetic research was dedicated to replicating primeval animals of the past. Ironically, in their obsession with the veneration of nature, they treated human beings, in particular the Jews, worse than animals.

“Their ideology of genetic purity extended to aspirations about reviving a pristine landscape with ancient animals and forests.”
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/w ... gExszwp.99

Today we see “Smart Growth” and restrictive land use laws based on NAZI notions of “sustainability”. Ironically, the word “ecology” was coined in 1866 by the racist German zoologist Ernst Haeckel. Suffice it to say that Hitler approved of many of Haeckel’s Darwinist concepts, especially as they related to the Jews. Even after the defeat of NAZISM, subsequent generations continue to be programmed to believe that stifling human development in order to “save” fish and frogs or some species of vole is the right and necessary thing to do. We have been programmed to believe that shutting down the timber industry for the sake of non-endangered birds, or promoting large non-endangered carnivores such as wolves and grizzly bears to the detriment of human beings, is right, noble, and just.

“The Reich Nature Protection Act even allowed the expropriation of private property without compensation for the sake of the environment. Sustainable forestry practices called Dauerwald, which ironically means “eternal” forest, were also introduced at the federal level.”
[Mark Musser- Hitler’s Green Killing Machine c. 2010]

Advocates of REWILDING are fond of claiming that “nature needs half”, implying that human beings occupy too much space and therefore we must limit our planetary “footprint” in order to preserve a “sustainable” percentage of the earth’s habitat for wildlife and fish, an amount which only they are competent to define. Climate change is blamed on capitalism and those who hold to a Judeo-Christian ethic or outmoded concepts of industry and “private property”. The extinction of wildlife species is blamed on those who hold to the mindset that man is the pinnacle of creation and nature exists to meet man’s needs. The Deep Ecology answer to all of the world’s perceived “problems” is to reduce human impacts by radically reducing the human population, curtailing development, and re-educating (read: programming) and controlling those who are allowed to remain.

But here are the facts. Over half of the entire human population currently occupies a mere 1% of the earth’s land surface. The perception that human beings are virtually everywhere is based on the fact that we are a communal species that choose to live in settled landscapes where other people, i.e. civilization, if not right out the front door, is close at hand. While the total land surface area of the earth is just under 58 million square miles, approximately 33% is desert and 24% is mountainous. Subtracting this largely empty and/or uninhabitable land from the total land area leaves about 25 million square miles of habitable land.

Half of the total human population lives on less than 1% of the land area of the planet. [Map Info courtesy of NASA]
Our urban centers are often surrounded by agricultural land that actually covers less than 11% of the earth’s land surface. Domesticated animals grazing on open undeveloped land or pastures may account for up to another 20%. That means human activity, in all forms, takes place on less than 1/3 of the earth’s land surface. The fact is, nearly 2/3 of earth’s land surface is very sparsely populated and is considered too hostile of an environment for human habitation or agricultural production. Thus, the REWILDERS already have far more land than they clam to want. In fact, they are GAINING EVEN MORE LAND EVERY DAY!

According to U.S. Bureau of Census statistics, the majority of rural counties in the United States are continuing to lose population while urban centers continue to grow. Over the last several decades, rural land abandonment in Europe has reached problematic levels as urbanization continues to swallow more and more of the population.

Those who think that urban sprawl and unchecked development are the greatest threats to the health of the planet may want to look at the facts. According to the 2014 FAO Global Land Cover SHARE database, a mere 0.6% of Earth’s land surface is defined as “artificial surfaces”. Artificial surfaces include any land surface area that has an “artificial covering” as a result of human activities. This would include any type of construction or infrastructure such as cities, towns, dams, roads, mines, quarries, urban parks, sports fields, etc.

Think about this. Over half of humanity lives on a mere 1% of the earth’s surface while development (infrastructure) covers just 0.6% percent. Let’s use Canada as an example to try to put this in perspective. Canada has a land area of roughly 3.8 million square miles. Nearly 90% of the population lives in only four provinces, with more than 40% living in only one province (Ontario). The vast majority of the Canadian population resides within 100 miles of the U.S. border. That leaves vast areas of unsettled land available for nature. Yet we are repeatedly told by the REWILDING advocates that “nature needs half”, as if humanity has somehow already managed to overrun the entire planet.

There is far more to the REWILDING agenda than meets the eye. Just like their NAZI mentors, modern environmentalists seek the power to create a world of their own making. They will be merciless in carrying out their eco-fascist agenda if they are allowed to succeed in their fanatical quest to obtain complete political control.

Sources for this article:

Mark Musser – “Hitler’s Green Killing Machine” c. 2010

http://www.aim.org/aim-report/hitlers-g ... g-machine/

http://www.curiousmeerkat.co.uk/questio ... inhabited/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ ... 180962739/

http://natureneedshalf.org/

http://www.fao.org/uploads/media/glc-share-doc.pdf

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This article fails to mention that Rebecca Wrigley is married to George Monbiot


Farming anger forces Rewilding Britain to pull out of Summit To Sea project in Mid Wales
The cross-country ecological scheme will continue but without the charity that helped set it up

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local- ... s-17119541

The five-year Summit To Sea project aims to create a nature-rich area stretching from the Pumlumon massif down to the Dyfi Estuary and out into Cardigan Bay
The five-year Summit To Sea project aims to create a nature-rich area stretching from the Pumlumon massif down to the Dyfi Estuary and out into Cardigan Bay

The lead partner of a £3.4m rewilding project in Mid Wales has been forced to pull out following a furious backlash from farming communities.

Rewilding Britain admitted it had made mistakes in the way the Summit to Sea scheme had been communicated to farmers in Ceredigion and Montgomeryshire.

The project aims to increase biodiversity and restore ecosystems in 10,000ha of Mid Wales – stretching from Machynlleth to Llanidloes and Aberystwyth – and almost 30,000ha of sea in Cardigan Bay.

Farming communities fear they will be constrained in how they run their businesses, and forced to rely on ecological tourism.

A statement by Rewilding Britain this morning confirmed it was withdrawing from the scheme followed feedback from farming unions and local communities.

Last week Powys Council passed a motion calling on the project to cut its ties with Rewilding Britain, seen locally as having more extreme views on land management.

Rebecca Wrigley, chief executive of Rewilding Britain, accepted that, for the project to succeed, it had to have community consent.

“While Summit to Sea held a series of face-to-face meetings and consultations locally, we should have communicated more widely that the project was to be community-led and owned,” she said.

“We’ve learnt some invaluable lessons about how to do this in the most effective way, which we’re committed to putting into practice elsewhere.”


From today, Summit to Sea will continue with seven partners following changes to its governance structure
Rewilding Britain was set up following the publication of Feral, George Monbiot’s controversial book that highlighted the “sheep wrecked” mountains of Wales.

The charity was instrumental in securing funds for Summit To Sea, which will now continue with seven partners – the Woodland Trust, Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust, RSPB Cymru , Marine Conservation Society, PLAS Marine Special Area of Conservation, Whale and Dolphin Conservation and the WWF.

Last month another partner, Machynlleth -based Ecodyfi, also withdrew from the project. At the time it said is was “disturbed” by the scheme’s focus on the environment at the expense of the area’s “cultural, linguistic, social and economic aspects”.

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Powys Council’s motion, passed by a 41 to 4 vote, called on the project to include partners as the farming unions, local authorities and Welsh language group Mentrau Iaith.

Plaid Cymru group leader Cllr Elwyn Vaughan, who proposed the motion, blasted the scheme as “privileged middle-class romanticism”.

He welcomed Rewilding Britain’s withdrawal and urged the remaining project partners to open dialogue with local action groups and the farming unions.


“Over recent months it has been emphasised that people are happy working with conservation partners,” he said.

“Much good work already happens with Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust, the RSPB and the Woodland Trust.

“However the lack of respect and trust in Rewilding Britain undermined any opportunity to move things forward.”

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Summit To Sea has said local antagonism was based on misunderstandings and that the project was keen to involve anyone with a shared interest in the area’s culture, environment and economy.


Further drop-in sessions will be held to explain the scheme’s objectives, said project director Melanie Newton.

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She added: “The project steering group – including Rewilding Britain – has taken on board concerns raised by local people and farming unions and decided to make changes to the way Summit to Sea is managed.

“We are now eager to move forward with the community and pave the way for a future which is beneficial to all.”

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Natural England threatens to sacrifice Dartmoor’s farmers
Posted By Laura White on Oct 2, 2020 | 0 comments
https://themoorlander.co.uk/natural-eng ... s-farmers/

The Moorlander is hereby launching a campaign to support the farmers of Okehampton Common and any other areas affected by Natural England’s recent decision to remove all sheep from the common for six months of the year.

As explained so eloquently on the Dartmoor Farmers Association website: ‘Dartmoor has been farmed by man for over 6,000 years; its landscape of open moorland, craggy granite tors and deep wooded river valleys is linked with its farming heritage. As custodians of the internationally important landscape of Dartmoor, our farmers have the responsibility of managing the land for themselves, their families, the environment, local communities, businesses and visitors. Without their experience, expertise and stock, the moor would be an entirely different place. When teamed with selective burning [of dead bracken and overgrown gorse and heather], the mixed grazing patterns of the ponies, sheep and cattle create the open moorland areas with their natural grasslands and peat bogs which support internationally important wildlife species.’

As was mentioned in our Green Issues column in the previous edition, The Moorlander was contacted and made aware of this new order from Natural England but at the time the facts were not known. It has now come to light that, in the name of environmental stewardship, Natural England has indeed signed the death warrant of those farmers and the future of the moor itself.

A statement from Natural England said: ‘Okehampton Common is part of the North Dartmoor Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Dartmoor Special Area of Conservation and Natural England has worked closely with commoners to put in place grazing management which balances the needs of farmers, wildlife, cultural heritage, recreational users and the contribution the common makes to Dartmoor’s special landscape qualities.

‘Management on the common has been supported through an Environmental Stewardship scheme aimed in part at restoring the heather and bilberry heathland that contributes to the site’s national importance for wildlife. We are working with the commoners on changes they can make to ensure their scheme is a success.” (We would like to point out that we have changed the spelling from the original statement, which had Okehampton as Oakhampton.)

However, it appears that they are not working with the commoners; the commoners have no say in this decision that will see their livelihoods taken from them. Commoners have grazing rights on the moor going back hundreds of years. For the past 25 years or so, many have been in agreements such as the Higher Level Stewardship scheme, with Natural England, who pay them subsidies to manage the land as dictated by the government. If the farmers do as they are told, they get their money. This new move will ensure that farmers comply, or risk losing their subsidies which provide many farmers with funds to run their farms. Without this, farmers could see themselves bankrupt. However, by complying, they will be losing their means of income as many farms are not large enough to house such numbers of animals and have no funds with which to feed the flocks over the winter.

Although Mat Cole, Director of the Dartmoor Farmers Association, farms on a different part of the moor, he is all too aware of the huge pressures that farmers are already under. He told us: “Many of us across Dartmoor are tenant farmers; our only capital is our livestock. You take that away, we have no capital to work with. Sheep can’t just be taken off and brought back to the home farm, the home farm is where we grow our winter feed. Sheep can’t just be put on the moor, they need to be born there. The only option would be to sell the sheep and then we’re left with nothing.”

The Okehampton farmers who first brought this new ruling to light keep sheep on the common. They said: “With taking the sheep away, a lot of gorse and other shrubs will grow up. It won’t just be the farmers that will suffer when the common becomes overgrown, the public will too, that’s why we think the public should be made aware of this.”

Another farmer who runs a flock of Scotch Blackface sheep in the area said he had requested a meeting with Natural England, who declined, and also further declined the compromise put to them of reducing the number of sheep by half rather than removing them all. Natural England refused to concede, responding that they wanted numbers reduced ‘close to zero’.

When the Natural England Team Leader for South Devon and Dartmoor, Eamon Crowe, was contacted for comment, he at first denied that his organisation had in place any schemes that would remove sheep from Dartmoor. It was pointed out to him that a member of his staff had indeed contacted the secretary of Okehampton Commoners Association with a letter that was to be distributed to farmers in the area, clearly stating that: ‘I think there needs to be a very significant reduction in numbers over this period with sheep numbers being brought down to as close to zero as possible for this period for the remainder of the HLS agreement’.

To this, Mr Crowe responded that the correspondence was supposed to be private. The Moorlander attempted to get further comment from Mr Crowe but we were simply referred back to the press statement as printed above.

Although each farm with grazing rights has a number of livestock units they are allowed to put on the moor, Natural England has, for the past few years, been raising subsidies to farmers if they reduce the number of sheep grazing. But this latest move to remove the sheep completely, for six months of the year, every year, will undoubtedly leave sheep farming in that area an impossible task.

Mat continued: “Without farming our communities are dead. All we are, are commuter belts for Exeter and Plymouth. Natural England are moving the goalposts and making sheep farming unsustainable, forcing farmers to reduce their flocks to unviable numbers. We’ve been dictated to by Natural England, by those who think they know better than the people who actually farm the land, for the last 25 years. It is their perceived wisdom to take animals off the moor when the moor has so many other things that cause an impact – tourists, the military, climate change. The only thing they have to manage is us, so we’re the whipping boy.”

It is not just the farmer’s livelihoods at stake either. The very landscape itself is under threat. Sheep have been grazing the moor for centuries so it seems to the ordinary person’s thinking that it is not the sheep that is the problem, if indeed there is a problem at all. A Dartmoor hill farmer who farms in another area of the moor said: “This area used to be purple with heather come late summer. The heather has been dying for years and it’s not overgrazing, we’re not overgrazed here. It’s because they don’t like us burning anymore.

‘There’s an area over the hill that we burnt about three years ago. You go there now and it’s covered in new, young heather. The old stuff that hasn’t been burnt for years is leggy and woody – nothing eats it and nothing lives under it and it isn’t regenerating like the burnt areas do. But they don’t like it; the burnt areas look black and not very nice for a while. Yet come back in a couple of years and you can see the new growth; thick, healthy growth.

‘These people out of university think they know it all, think they know best how to manage the land we’ve been managing for years. Farmers don’t want to damage the moor, we love it, it’s our homes and our livelihoods, why would we want to do anything to jeopardise that? They’ve wanted our sheep off the moor for years and now they’re stopping us burning too. They will be the ones who will damage this land.”

Geoffrey Cox, MP for Torridge and West Devon, commented: “I am most concerned to learn of Natural England’s decision to exclude sheep grazing on the moor over the winter. I am urgently seeking an explanation from the agency and, if necessary, I will raise the issue with the Secretary of State.”

The Moorlander would like to encourage readers to sign the petition letter printed below and send it to Natural England. We feel very strongly that in this instance Natural England should be held accountable for their ill-judged decision and a much more lengthy, open and transparent consultancy needs to take place.
Send to:
Mr E Crowe
Team Leader, South Devon and Dartmoor
Natural England
Ground Floor
Sterling House
Dix’s Field
Exeter
EX1 1QA

Or email Eamon.Crowe@naturalengland.org.uk

Dear Mr Crowe,
I am writing to demonstrate my support for the farmers whose livelihoods have been imperilled by the latest direction from Natural England to drastically reduce sheep numbers on the commons. The decision would not only put many farmers, some of whose families have been farming in the area for generations, out of business, but would also change the ecological balance of the area irreversibly.

Alongside being an income stream for farmers, sheep are an incredibly important management tool for keeping the moor accessible and its flora regenerated. Without grazing, the area will soon become an impenetrable forest of gorse, bracken and bramble.

I ask you to withdraw your order to remove sheep from September to March and enter into more considerate and transparent talks with the commoners affected.

The moor may be managed by your organisation but it
is home to many people and an important part of many more people’s lives. Your web site says you are the government’s adviser for the natural environment in England, helping to protect England’s nature and landscapes for people to enjoy and for the services they provide. This move is not protecting our farmers, our landscape nor our flora and fauna.

Please consider the wider implications of your actions.

Yours sincerely,

Author: Laura White




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‘It’ll take away our livelihoods’: Welsh farmers on rewilding and carbon markets
Teleri and Ned Fielden
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ing-debate

Despite attempts to integrate them into moves to tackle the biodiversity crisis, some farmers still feel sidelined and criticised
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Teleri Fielden is suddenly very despairing. After skirting around the topic for the best part of an hour at her farm in Snowdonia, we’re discussing rewilding and the idea of restoring land to a more natural state and creating more nature-friendly farming practices.

Wales has become one of the focal points of the debate playing out all over the world about how farms and rewilding can work together. Supporters of rewilding say the two can co-exist, but that farming has to change given it is the biggest contributor to nature loss in the country.

Around 1 in 6 species in the country are currently at risk of extinction and birds like turtle doves and corn buntings have already gone from Wales’ skies.

With close to 90% of land in Wales used for agriculture, there is currently little space for wildlife to exist free from the influence of farming. Rewilding, which can involve encouraging and supporting wildlife on-farm through replanting hedgerows as well as giving over unproductive land to nature, could help reverse the biodiversity decline.

A recent report from the Rewilding Britain charity found rewilding at 22 sites in England had led to an increase in jobs from a total of 151 to 222, in roles including animal husbandry, ecology and nature tourism.

But two years ago plans to rewild a large area of mid-Wales sparked a backlash from farmers, who felt sidelined. Rewilding Britain was forced to step down from the project. Adding to the disquiet are reports of Welsh farmland being bought for carbon-offset projects.

Fielden, 31, who has just taken over the tenancy of Hafod y Llyn Isaf, a farm a few miles from Wales’ highest mountain, Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon), is involved in the nature friendly farming network, but nonetheless remains sceptical of rewilding.
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“I just find it bizarre. It is as if they just go, ‘we’ll pluck all you people out of there, we don’t want you, your livelihoods, your traditions or your land management skills’,” she says.

“We’ll just remove you and to hell with the rural economy, people and food. It’s a weird kind of Highland clearance,” adds Fielden, referring to the forced removal of people from farms in the Scottish Highlands by landlords from the mid-18th century.

Together with her husband, Ned, 29, Fielden is building a herd of sheep and cattle, which they rear outdoors all year round. She has made a beautifully hand-drawn map of their plans for creating flower-rich meadows and integrating the woodland on their farm, once an estuary.

“Nature can do amazing things, but if we separate ourselves from the land, we will lose that link, as well as the skills and experience of managing it for ever. We could just import food – or instead, we could create livelihoods, local communities and homegrown protein.”
Teleri Fielden standing in a valley with sheep in the distance
Teleri Fielden’s plans for the farm include flower-rich meadows and making more use of woodland, as well as holiday lets and farm tours. Photograph: Handout

For Fielden, taking on the farm was only possible with a loan from her parents to cover the cost of livestock and investments around the farm. Income streams include selling meat boxes, being paid to graze their livestock on other land, and jobs four days a week off the farm.

It sounds precarious, but Fielden, who grew up in Wrexham, already feels committed to the area and community. “We’re probably going to be here for the rest of our lives,” she says.

“I’ve always wanted to farm and to do something positive environmentally. And for me, beef and lamb is the most ethical way of raising meat. Our animals are very much free range, they’re just here on the land. It’s a closed-loop system [manure is recycled into the soil that grows the grass animals eat]. We’re not buying in soya feed like with chickens and there are no external inputs apart from worm treatment.”

Jane Powell, a coordinator of the Wales Real Food and Farming Conference, and who has been involved in rewilding projects, says farmers are seen by some as “incidental” to the countryside: “That they [farmers] had trashed the wildlife and now someone else was going to restore it.”

Because we rotationally graze, the organic matter of the soil is improving at 0.2% a year, which means more carbon locked up

Rhidian Glyn, farmer

Powell says land-use debates must take account of food, wildlife, tourism and jobs. “Wildlife and food are not two things to be traded off against each other; they need to be integrated.

“We shouldn’t be selling off bits of land for rewilding and keeping intensive poultry production on others,” she says.

Rewilding Britain admits mistakes were made in the mid-Wales project, but insists it is a myth to think rewilding is about abandoning land, food production or communities.

“Growing numbers of farms are showing how they can make a difference to nature – from smaller-scale wildlife projects that are sowing wildflowers or replanting hedgerows or reducing chemical use, to farms that are rewilding marginal and unproductive land on a large-scale,” says a spokesperson for the organisation.

“Farmers are essential for helping society tackle the nature and climate crises – not least because some 70% of Britain is farmland, and because so often farmers know the land intimately, with deep cultural, historical and personal connections to it.”

While Fielden juggles work, the farm and diversification to stay viable, 50 miles to the south in mid-Wales, Rhidian Glyn has a large enough cattle and sheep business to farm full-time.
Rhidian Glyn sits on a quad bike looking from a hilltop with two sheepdogs nearby
Rhidian Glyn on his farm north of Machynlleth, Wales, where for every tonne of meat sold from the farm, nine tonnes of carbon are sequestered. Photograph: Handout

Glyn, 36, is also a tenant, with a landlord who he is keen to stress wants the land to remain in agricultural use.

His type of farming – livestock on hilly land – is often seen as the least viable, yet subsidies make up just 10% of his turnover, thanks to booming lamb sales – “prices have gone through the roof since Brexit”, he says – and a profitable business rearing milking cows for local dairy farmers.

Annual measurements of the farm’s soils show he is capturing and storing, or sequestering, carbon through his cattle and sheep.

“Because we rotationally graze [moving animals between pastures], the organic matter of the soil is improving at a rate of 0.2% a year, which means more carbon locked up in the soils. For every tonne of meat we’re selling from the farm, nine tonnes of carbon are being sequestered,” he says.

Yet for Glyn, this is no financial boom, rather a source of potential conflict if farmers are sold credits for that carbon but later asked to provide meat that can be marketed as sequestering carbon.
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As with the debate about rewilding, Glyn fears that carbon offsetting will accelerate a move away from food production and traditional livelihoods in Wales. He doesn’t want to sell carbon credits from planting trees or sequestered carbon in his soils if it replaces rearing sheep and cattle.

“It would be interesting if the world did come to that, but whether it’s right is another thing. Agriculture is just the recycling of carbon, isn’t it? Whereas the companies that are buying carbon credits are just burning fossil fuels, aren’t they, which is just a one-way system.”

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Sidelined Then Erased - Money Grubbing Rewilding mob take over countryside charity, boot out founder Robin Page

Former BBC presenter claims 'dreadful' trustees are trying to sack him from charity he founded

18 March 2021 by Stephen Delahunty
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The Countryside Restoration Trust rejects Robin Page's claims and says he has been offered a new role

The founder of a countryside charity has claimed he is being ousted by a group of what he called “dreadful” trustees in a bitter dispute over the running of the charity.

Robin Page, founder of the Countryside Restoration Trust and a former presenter of BBC sheepdog trials programme One Man and His Dog, said on Twitter that he was being “sacked” from the charity he established in 1993 with one farm.

The charity, which has since grown to manage 18 properties around the UK, denied this was the case.

It said Page's role as executive chair was being concluded on legal advice, but he had been invited to continue as a trustee.

Page claimed he was being "bullied out" of the charity by a “group of greedy elderly men” who wanted to take the charity away from its members.

He said: “Can you believe it. After 27 years of giving most of my life to the Countryside Restoration Trust – I am being sacked by the CRT in April – a group of three or four dreadful trustees who have lost the plot and have let their expanded egos take over.”

The charity rejected the claims.

Page said he had also removed the legacy in his will he was going to leave the charity.

He alleged his dismissal letter came from vice-chair of the CRT, Nicholas Watts.

But in a statement on the charity’s website, Watts said: “I’d like to address the misunderstandings on social media about Robin Page’s position at the charity.

“There’s no question of him being ‘sacked’ or there being a ‘trustees’ takeover’. His role as executive chair has been concluded, on legal advice, to comply with Charity Commission rules and best practice governance.

“He not only remains a trustee but has been offered an exciting new role recognising his immense service to the charity and enabling him to continue building our membership networks and portfolio of 18 properties around the UK.

“We hope that this clarifies matters and emphatically puts the record straight.”

In a separate statement, the CRT’s trustees said they planned to meet Page today to discuss his future role, which they hoped “will be conciliatory and collaborative in context”.

[TonyGosling]

The problem with rewilding
by Harry Mount
Humans have shaped Britain for thousands of years
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the ... rewilding/

6 January 2022, 11:30am


The government has gone wild. Under new plans, just announced by Environment Secretary George Eustice, farmers and landowners in England could be paid to turn large areas of land into nature reserves and restore floodplains. In place of the old EU subsidies, farmers will be rewarded by the government for how much they care for the environment.

It sounds like a wonderful idea — a return to a glorious, prelapsarian wilderness. But it’s a little more complicated than that. Eustice referred warmly to the poster boy of rewilding, the Knepp estate in West Sussex. I’ve been to Knepp and it is indeed glorious. Nightingales have returned, accompanied by clouds of Purple Emperor butterflies. There are even White Storks nesting in the trees.

But, as the Burrells, who own Knepp, openly say, those White Storks were introduced to the estate by their intervention. There is plenty of human intervention needed to keep the balance of nature going in a supposedly wild estate.

The new obsession with rewilding is part of the misguided Manichean view that nature is beautiful and anything done by man is ugly

It helps, too, that Knepp is in the prosperous southeast of England, with plenty of nearby, well-off holidaymakers to take wildlife safaris on the estate. Knepp, too, was among the first great stretches of British countryside to rewild — and it’s by far the most famous rewilding project. For all these reasons, Knepp has, admirably, prospered as a rewilding estate. It will be more difficult for those following in its footsteps in more remote parts of the country.

It’s admirable, too, that pop superstar Ed Sheeran is planning to plant ‘as many trees as possible’ in his own rewilding of his 16-acre estate in Suffolk. Of course, you should be able to do whatever you want with your own land — and with your own money. The problem is when the dead hand of government steps in and universally encourages rewilding where it isn’t suitable. Just like subsidy produces bad art by creating books, music and pictures no one actually wants to buy, so rewilding by diktat will produce unnecessary, possibly ugly rewilding in the wrong parts of the country.
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If you stop cultivating fields, they don’t instantly turn into a wild paradise. They first become a sort of shabby scrubland, and then dominant species — some attractive; some not so attractive — take over. Yes, some oaks will start to stand proud over the scrubland after several decades; but Japanese knotweed and other greedy superweeds will also go crazy.

The new obsession with rewilding is part of the misguided Manichean view that nature is beautiful and anything done by man is ugly. In fact, the sublime beauties of the British countryside are almost entirely thanks to man playing around with Mother Nature.

In May 1939, on the eve of war, H.E. Bates wrote: ‘Most of the English countryside as we see it today is manmade… the part most completely shaped by man is this plain, fundamental chequerwork of flat field and hedgerow.’

Britain’s earliest hedges were planted in the neolithic period, in around 4,000 to 2,500 BC. But extensive enclosure was first carried out in earnest by the Romans, who came up with the simplest way to grow a hedge: smear plant seed all over a piece of old rope and bury it in a shallow trench. The Anglo-Saxons accelerated the practice of enclosure; the word ‘hedge’ comes from Old English ‘haga’, meaning an enclosure, itself derived from the Saxon word for the hawthorn fruit. The first mention of a hedge being planted was at Kington Langley, Wiltshire, in 940 AD: ‘the hedgerow that Aelfric made’.

Even the wilder bits of Britain were shaped thanks to enclosure. The West Country and the Welsh and Scottish borders were enclosed in the Middle Ages when the fields were gradually claimed from heath and forest. These ancient landscapes built up a thick web of woods, ponds and pollarded trees. In these wilder parts of the country, the roads, footpaths and ancient, mixed hedges are alluringly crooked, their fields more likely to be irregular.

The hand of man is often improved by nature and time — but it is still the hand of man that created the essential layout of the landscape. In southern Dartmoor, the moors are still divided into neat parallel lines by low stone banks, or Bronze Age ‘reaves’ — barriers used on arable and pasture land. They wander out of true every now and then, but their overwhelming force is towards order — their lines often leap over a sunken river and continue their straight course on the other side of the valley.

Great age is also apparent in the depth of country roads, particularly in Devon’s ancient sunken lanes, flanked by banks topped with thick, brambly hedgerows. These are often formed by two-fold ditches — where the spoil from the excavated road was piled up on either side to create the semi-tunnel effect.
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The great British landscape has been largely shaped by agriculture — and by agriculture designed for cultivation, food and profit, not for government-declared leisure. The government should beware of creating just another form of globalisation: where food production is planted offshore while the countryside is turned into a middle-class theme park.

[TonyGosling]

Rewilding Britain Timeline – Partners George Monbiot and Rebecca Wrigley’s Cover For WEF/Private Equity’s Enclosure By Stealth?
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Rewilding Britain Timeline – Partners George Monbiot and Rebecca Wrigley’s Cover For Private Equity’s Global Enclosure By Stealth … and Pantheism?

Across the UK, in Holland and as far away as India and New Zealand farmers are protesting. Here in the UK DEFRA’s new ‘environmental’ requirements known as Biodiversity Net Gain force farmers to take about 15% of land out of production, putting many who are surviving on slim profit margins out of business, and off the land.

The spin is that farming is incompatible with wildlife, but the sinister end result is upland and downland, woods, pasture and arable land are becoming just tens of thousands of acres of distressed assets forced to market to be snapped up by private equity. Hang on. Farming, after all, and the surplus food it provides, formed the basis, 4,000 or so years ago, of civilisation.
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This is particularly worrying because it appears to have been so well-planned, so pre-meditated… Though post-WWII, US-style industrial agriculture is more destructive, before the 1930s, traditional non-pesticide, non-chemical fertiliser farming, with horses and horse-muck, always left plenty of space for wildlife.

“…when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they ought to do so in the hope of sharing the harvest.”: 1 Corinthians 9:10.

So whilst producing vast food surplus to feed a growing empire, the staunch Anglican-Nonoconformist Christian culture ensured God’s England and its wildlife were respected. Poachers were treated harshly, but manorial rabbit warrens, dovecotes, wild boar and deer provided common-sense reserve of village protein in times of unrest, or famine.

Until 2021 there was a successful charity that celebrated this. The Countryside Restoration Trust (CRT), founded by journalist Robin Page, championed the integration of farming and wildlife. The CRT, however. was clobbered in a nasty 2021 hostile takeover which arguably killed heartbroken Robin who’d seen his life’s work wrecked by ruthless Rewilding carpetbaggers.

China and the developing world have roundly beaten Western Finance Capitalism at its own game. But blocked economically and militarily, where will the West’s voracious rent-seekers turn? The answer is, of course, to consolidate their domestic monopolies, predate on domestic Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and middle-class asset owners. Quietly placing family farmers right in the crosshairs.

Old markets, squeezed dry, are rebranded as new markets in ‘Carbon Credits’, then, which King Charles personally benefits in terms of offshore wind and carbon trading regulation. But these are nothing but a great deception, a sophisticated excuse for global elite asset managers and high-priests of globalisation… to privatise the earth and bring in formalised digital human slavery.

The second great land-grabbing wave of enclosure has begun. This time its not the aristocracy, but Blackrock, Vanguard, the new kings on the block, private equity cartels.
‘Toxic positivity’

Some say Accelerationism, fathered by 21st century Nietzschean philosopher Nick Land, has the Western World in its spell. Land, who this writer Tony Gosling grew up with, delights in speeding towards Armageddon. Accelerationists like Peter Thiel and Yuval Noah Harari, backed by the financial 4th Reich, encourage omni-crises and come up with ‘solutions’ to each, for the public, that just make things worse.

So, from a cosy little cottage near Totnes, Devon, George Monbiot and Rebecca Wrigley’s forked-tongues chime out that, ‘The greatest threat to life on earth is farming’, and only by denying meddling farmers access to land can we prevent ‘climate breakdown’.

It doesn’t seem to matter that Agenda 2030/COP/WEF rewilding of wolves in Germany has been such a disaster. Nor that it’s only a matter of time before one of the hundreds of reintroduced wolf packs kill a wandering German child or two. Wolf welfare is elevated above human welfare, this, my friends, is pantheism.

Nietzsche was Adolf Hitler‘s guru, and butter wouldn’t melt in Monbiot and Wrigley’s mouths.
Rewilding Britain’s Timeline of WEF Treachery
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Understanding the recent increase in “Rewilding” initiatives in Cornwall by examining a wider global “Rewilding” agenda.

Nigel Sumpter

CONTENTS
1 Introduction to this Working Paper
2. Rewilding Initiatives
2.1 What is “Rewilding”
2.2 Summary
3. Two Organisations key for understanding current Rewilding initiatives
3.1 The World Economic Forum (The WEF)
3.2 The United Nations (The UN)
3.3 The 2019 Strategic Partnership Framework between The WEF and The UN.
4. Timeline of Rewilding related initiatives
4. Timeline of key international initiatives relating to rewilding.
4.1 1970s to 1990s: Some foundational elements of current Rewilding Initiatives
4.2 2000 to date: Global reiteration and reinforcement of he preceding Rewilding principles
5. Taking Farmland Out of Food Production for “Climate Change” mitigation and/or Rewilding
5.1 International Taking Farmland Out of Food Production
5.2 Europe Taking Farmland Out of Food Production
5.3 Britain Taking Farmland Out of Food Production
5.4 Cornwall Taking Farmland Out of Food Production
6. Cornwall: Some other recent examples of local level rewilding initiatives
7. Addendum
7.1 Some comments on how rewilding can be a mechanism for wealth transfer.
7.2 World Human Population Reduction – “to save the planet”
7.3 Some guides to Agenda 2030:

1: Introduction to this working paper
This working paper considers a marked recent increase in local “rewilding” initiatives using the example of Cornwall and examines how they are/may be driven by a wider global agenda.
Representative text extracts from readily available public sources are arranged into a broadly chronological order. This presents an overall picture of the key initiatives that are part of a global agenda including “rewilding” and their impacts from global down down to local level. These quoted text extracts are highlighted in Italics.
Links are provided against many of the representative text extracts to allow deeper enquiry.
(CAPITAL NOTES IN BRACKETS) offer comment and queries for the reader to consider.
Underlined and/or in bold in the text extracts where introduced and considered of particular significance are: Names – of individuals and organisations, Policies, Initiatives etc

2: “Rewilding”
2.1 What is “Rewilding”
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewilding ... n_biology)
Definition: “Rewilding” , or re-wilding, activities are conservation efforts aimed at restoring and protecting natural processes and wilderness areas. Rewilding is a form of ecological restoration with an emphasis on recovering the geographically specific set of ecological interactions and functions that would have maintained ecosystem dynamics prior to human influences. This may require active human intervention to achieve.”
Origin: “The word “rewilding” was coined by members of the grass roots network Earth First!, appearing in print by 1990, and was refined and grounded in a scientific context by conservation biologists Michael Soulé and Reed Noss. According to Soulé and Noss, rewilding is a conservation method based on “cores, corridors, and carnivores.” The concepts of cores, corridors, and carnivores were developed further in 1999. Dave Foreman, Earth First! co-founder, subsequently wrote …about rewilding as a conservation strategy”.
Note: Earth First! co-founded by Dave Foreman, referred to in the Wikipedia extracts above, has been described as an extreme Eco-Terrorist group [this is not true, Earth First is a pagan-oriented non-violent direct action (NVDA) group which hold regular open gatherings, ed.]. As set out below in the timeline section Dave Foreman wrote the influential “The Wildlands Project” published by The Club of Rome in 1992 which is substantially about Rewilding and the intrinsically necessary management of the human population . Recommendations in the “The Wildlands Project” are foundational to current global Rewilding Policies embodied in the likes of Agenda2030 “The Sustainable Development Goals” which is signed up to by 178 Governments worldwide. The foundational 1992 The Wildlands Project’s recommendations for rewilding go hand in hand with radical control of human populations into just 25% of the land including relocation into “Sustainable” cities.

2.2 Summary: On the face of it some degree of selective “Rewilding” proposals in their own right seems a perfectly reasonable option to consider to address loss of flora, fauna and habitat arising from human activities such as historic and ongoing clearance of original wild forests and other habitats to allow for agricultural land use, urbanisation and resource exploitation along with hunting mostly larger wild animals to extinction as either food sources or if perceived as dangerous.
This brief study however concludes that the current global to local “rewilding” imperative substantially arises from the global United Nations (UN)’s Agenda2030 “The Sustainable Development Goals” and in particular Sustainable Development Goal 15 (SDG15) “Life on Land”.
Agenda2030 is supported by it’s 178 signatory world Governments who are bound to implementing all 17 SDGs. This appears to be integrated with other global initiatives of The World Economic Forum (WEF) such as the “The 4th Industrial Revolution” and “The Great Reset” .
A key part of advocating and advancing implementation of this overall global agenda globally down to local level , including rewilding, is through the “Strategic Partnership Framework” signed in 2019 between the UN and the WEF .
The UN, WEF and signatory world Governments, along with private and public stakeholder organisations and individuals are due to meet in September 2023 to discuss how to accelerate delivery of this overall global agenda some aspects of which involve rewilding.
The “rewilding” element of Agenda 2023 SDG 15 “Life on Land” appears to have evolved from being fundamentally founded on the extreme rewilding recommendations embodied in the 1992 Wildlands Project, published as noted earlier by The Club of Rome and written by Dave Foreman co-founder of Earth First! The later organisation also as noted earlier being regarded as among the most extreme eco-terrorists of the time.
The Club of Rome, publisher of the Wildlands Project is said to express a desire for One World Government. The World Economic Forum have also promoted One World Government. The United Nations (UN) who it has been said are increasingly moving in some respects toward being a component of a One World Government approach(eg UN Secretary-General’s remarks at the 2017 World Government Summit : https://www.un.org/youthenvoy/2017/02/s ... summit-qa/.)
None of these bodies are elected or accountable to the people and there appears to be little opportunity or offer of public consultation on the Agenda 2030 measures, including Rewilding, or the seemingly related “4th Industrial Revolution” or “Great Reset” measures.”
2009 December Telegraph “There’ll be nowhere to run from the new world government” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/col ... nment.html)
2010 May Martin Edward. One World Governance – A Common Purpose? “[Would these global agreements] sweep away any consideration of what was once assumed to be the most basic principle of modern democracy: that elected national governments are responsible to their own people – that the right to govern derives from the consent of the electorate. There’ll be nowhere to run from the new world government.” https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/one-wo ... on-purpose

3. Organisations central to understanding current Rewilding initiatives:
3.1 The World Economic Forum (The WEF)
World Economic Forum (WEF) – From Wikipedia March 13, 2022: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum : The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental and lobbying organisation….founded on 24 January 1971 by German engineer and economist Klaus Schwab. The foundation is mostly funded by its 1,000 member companies – typically global enterprises with over US$5 billion in turnover, & views its own mission as “improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas”.
Also: North Western Research Institute (NWRI) “The Forum suggests that a globalised world is best managed by a self-selected coalition of multinational corporations, governments and civil society organizations ..which it expresses through initiatives like the “Great Reset”. ” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za4Q8WXI4vQ https://nwri.org/world-economic-forum/
Rewilding is listed on the World Economic Forum’s website. The WEF say: “..In the future, food will be produced more intensively in fewer areas”, and “less productive land will be used for rewilding”, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/10/ ... ng-nature/ “Rewilding has gone global, and rewilding projects are growing in more than 70 countries across Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, Latin America and North America.” “The Global Rewilding Alliance, which was created in 2020, says rewilding the Earth will “stabilize the climate, halt mass extinction, and reduce the risks of new pandemics”. (THE LATTER COMMENT REF PANDEMICS SEEMS BIZARRE? – DOES IT HINT AT THE COVID19 ‘PANDEMIC’ BEING LINKED TO THE WEF AND THEIR GREAT RESET?)
1992 – ongoing. The WEF has claimed to be able to insert it’s Young Global Leaders (YGLs) into world Governments to deliver WEF policies (presumably including Rewilding). Already in the first year of WEF’S Young Global Leaders (YGL)training programme, 1992, a number of highly influential candidates were elected. Among 200 selected were global profiles such as Angela Merkel, Tony Blair, Nicolas Sarkozy, Bill Gates, Bono, Richard Branson (Virgin), Jorma Ollila (Shell Oil), and José Manuel Barroso (President of the European Commission 2004–2014) (Personal conversation has suggested that around half of the current members of the Cabinet of the current British Parliament may be WEF trained YGLs.) Klaus Schwab, head of the World Economic Forum, has claimed that the WEF have penetrated many world government cabinets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOuLQDRCexs https://geopolitics.co/2022/02/22/world ... -revealed/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/ ... al-leaders https://expose-news.com/2022/01/05/erns ... mic-forum/
2030 March The Expose News: “Obscured by noble-sounding verbiage, the text of the World Economic Forum’s Agenda 2030 hides a hideous truth. When you look past the “sustainable development” jargon, it’s clear they want to take away your goods, such as electrical appliances, motor vehicles and even property rights.” https://expose-news.com/2023/03/05/what ... enda-2030/
2023 February Video: “Whitney Webb | What is the World Economic Forum?” Investigative journalist Whitney Webb reveals the inner workings of the World Economic Forum (“WEF”), the driving force behind The Great Reset. “The World Economic Forum (WEF) plays a significant role in guiding international developments in the interests of the business community.” ..”These are dreams where the powerful stay powerful, and the underclasses continue to toil and suffer. ..to solidify corporate control over the governments’ of the world”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za4Q8WXI4vQ

3.2 The United Nations (The UN)
The United Nations, referred to informally as the UN, is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations
“Within the UN’s Sustainable Policy, which Britain has adopted, we find the objective to remove private ownership whilst at the same time we also find the objective to re-wild the countryside – the UN envisions that most of the people in the world will be living in cities by 2050.”
2021 September Expose news: “Building an Empire – The United Nations Using the World Economic Forum to Roll Out Its Agenda”. “A key facet of that action plan is to push the agenda down to the most local levels in society. There are multiple paths and they all lead to a ‘One World Government’. ” https://expose-news.com/2021/09/14/buil ... ts-agenda/ “…as explained in James Jaeger’s documentary (below). Although it’s lengthy at 2.5 hours, it’s well worth watching as it gives a deeper understanding of the Agenda, how it’s being implemented and its local and global impact. While watching you will find you are able to draw parallels to what is happening in your own locality.” 2020 July James Jaeger’s documentary “UNSUSTAINABLE – The UN’s Agenda For World Domination” https://archive.org/details/2020-unsust ... domination. “The UN says “sustainable development” is simply the “Environmental Movement” reconfiguring the planet into a safe, green world. Others maintain it’s the forced inventory and control of all land, water, minerals, plants, animals, building projects and human beings on the planet. In other words, a blueprint for what many fear could morph into a totalitarian World Government. So what’s the real agenda behind Agenda 21?” . 2.5 hours long, it gives a deeper understanding of the UN and it’s agenda, how it’s being implemented and its local and global impact. While watching you are able to draw parallels to what is happening in your own locality.” (Including Rewilding initiatives.)

3.3 The 2019 Strategic Partnership Framework between The WEF and The UN to deliver Agenda 2030 “The Sustainable Development Goals”,globally down to locally (including SDG15 and Rewilding) .
2019 June The United Nations (UN) and The World Economic Forum (WEF) signed the “Strategic Partnership Framework” between them to accelerate the implementation of UN Agenda 2030 which under it’s Sustainable Development Goal 15 (SDG15) titled “LIFE ON LAND” promotes Rewilding. …. Agenda 2030 is a ..”global movement, co-ordinated through a global to local action plan.” A key facet of that action plan is to push the Agenda down to the most local levels in society. This would include pushing Rewilding (under SDG15) from globally down to locally – eg in Cornwall.
2021 September Expose News. “The United Nations (“UN”) “unites” the governments of 193 countries of the world. The World Economic Forum (“WEF”) “unites” 1,000 of the world’s largest corporations. The two are joined by a strategic partnership to implement the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030. An agenda which aims to control every aspect of our lives.” https://expose-news.com/2021/09/14/buil ... ts-agenda/ (UN/WEF Strategic Partnership Framework in the embedded video from approx -9.5minutes)
In the late ’90s at the World Economic Forum annual meeting, the then-head of the UN, Kofi Annan, essentially said that the World Economic Forum had been in part responsible for what he referred to as a silent revolution at the UN, where the UN, instead of championing the public sectors of the world (which is how most people think of the UN) they would instead begin to prioritise the needs of the businesses of the world … multinational corporations … over the past several decades the World Economic Forum being a major part of this. The United Nations has been pushed to essentially prioritise corporate needs over public needs.
2022 October Expose News. The U.N. & World Economic Forum are using each other to implement ‘Agenda 2030’ & ‘The Great Reset’ “The United Nations (“UN”) “unites” the governments of 193 countries of the world. Whilst the World Economic Forum (“WEF”) “unites” 1,000 of the world’s largest corporations. The two are joined by a strategic partnership to implement the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030. An agenda which aims to control every aspect of our lives. ” https://expose-news.com/2022/10/21/un-w ... eat-reset/
2023 March Expose News. “…a strategic alliance WEF entered into with the United Nations (“UN”) in 2019, which called for the UN to “use public-private partnerships as the model for nearly all policies that it implements, most specifically the implementation of the 17 sustainable development goals, sometimes referred to as Agenda 2030”.”(which includes Rewilding) https://expose-news.com/2023/03/05/what ... enda-2030/

4. Timeline of key Rewilding related initiatives
4.1 1970s to 1990s: Foundational elements of current Rewilding initiatives
1972 “Limits of Growth” Report – published by The Club of Rome (see introduction for comment ref CoR aims of eg Global Government). Main author Dennis Meadows is an honorary member of the Club of Rome and a member of the World Economic Forum. The Limits to Growth is a 1972 book about the computer modelling of exponential economic and population growth with finite resource supplies. Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and commissioned by the Club of Rome https://archive.org/details/TheLimitsToGrowth/mode/2up It advocates an up to 86% reduction in human population (without saying how) The impacts from too large a human population are established in this report and appear to remain part of the underlying arguments around rewilding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits_to_Growth : After reviewing their computer simulations, the research team came to …. conclusions (including):”It is possible to alter these growth trends and to establish a condition of ecological and economic stability that is sustainable far into the future. The state of global equilibrium could be designed so that the basic material needs of each person on earth are satisfied and each person has an equal opportunity to realize his individual human potential.” The introduction goes on to say: ” These conclusions are so far-reaching and raise so many questions for further study that we are quite frankly overwhelmed by the enormity of the job that must be done.” (THE UNEXPECTED ORIGIN OF THE ‘CLIMATE CRISIS’ “Jeffery Jaxen takes a deep dive into the origin of the ‘climate crisis’ narrative, highlighting the Club of Rome’s hand..) – ‘Climate Change’ is widely presented as among the justifications for Rewilding. Includes background to Club of Rome coming to publish the Limits of Growth & reference to selection of ‘Climate Change’ as a possible justification for establishing global government. https://thehighwire.com/ark-videos/the- ... te-crisis/)
1973 A Thames Television UK documentary on the Club of Rome’s The Limits to Growth explained that “only through complete control of societies can catastrophe be avoided and that a coming revolution should be planned.” https://archive.org/details/limits-to-g ... ntary-1973
Video of Dennis Meadows in 2017 talking about Limits of Growth (45 yeas after it’s publication & reasserting the Limits to Growth report’s recommendations): https://youtu.be/Dbo6uvJBtZg The video shows Meadows musing over his hopes that the population reduction by 86% of the world population could be accomplished peacefully under a “benevolent” dictatorship. He said: “We could have eight or nine billion, probably, if we have a very strong dictatorship which is smart … and [people have] a low standard of living … But we want to have freedom and we want to have a high standard of living so we’re going to have a billion people. And we’re now at seven, so we have to get back down. I hope that this can be slow, relatively slow and that it can be done in a way which is relatively equal, you know, so that people share the experience.”
Expose News – MARCH 2023 Retrospective review: “The Limits to Growth is deeply flawed yet advocates used it to claim societies need to be completely controlled to avoid catastrophe. It may have been the first computer model and the first to fuse global temperature with variables like population growth, resource loss, and the under-defined category of ‘pollution’..”: https://expose-news.com/2023/05/13/the- ... ly-flawed/)
1976 UN Conference on Human Settlement. Principle of “Sustainable Development” publicly aired in effect the principle of state control over private property for wider good.
1987 Our Common Future Report (commonly known as The Brundtland Report) was published. (UN had in 1983 appointed an international commission to propose strategies for “Sustainable Development” and it had originally been written by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Switzerland.). The term Sustainable Development was first introduced to the world in the pages of a 1987 report “Our Common Future” produced by the United Nations World Commission on Environmental and Development, authored by Gro Harlem Brundtland, VP of The World Socialist Party. The term was first offered as official UN policy in 1992, in a document called UN Sustainable Development Agenda 21, issued at the UN’s Earth Summit, today referred to simply as Agenda 21. In signing, each of 178 nations pledge to adopt the goals of Agenda 21 https://nwri.org/agenda-21/ https://thenewamerican.com/print/un-age ... nservation
Biological diversity is the subject of Chapter 15 of Agenda 21. Agenda 21’s aim initially had been to achieve global sustainable development by 2000, with the “21” in Agenda 21 referring to the original target of approach the 21st century (this was not achieved). (since directly translated recently into Agenda 2030 as Sustainable Development Goal 15. (SDG15) “Life on Land” https://youtu.be/rTE-3Fl7wgg.
1992 “Beyond the Limits” updates the findings of Limits of Growth Report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Limits “Beyond the Limits is a book continuing the modeling of the consequences of a rapidly growing global population that was started in the 1972 report Limits to Growth.” “A sustainable future will require profound social and psychological readjustments in the developed and developing world.” “Current crop yields can only sustain the world’s population at subsistence levels, …”
1992 UN Agenda21 signed by USA during the Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro

1992 The Wildlands Project was published and remains an influential source for several key aspects of current global rewilding policies. Author Dave Foreman was founder of Earth First which has been described as the most militant eco-terrorist organisation on the earth. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlands_Network : The Wildlands Network (formerly known as “Wildlands Project”) https://jmm.nu/united-nations-wildlands-project/ https://americanpolicy.org/2020/04/07/t ... arly-days/ https://americanstewards.us/the-wildlan ... t-returns/ On Page 15 of the The Wildlands Project it says: “We must convert (ie Rewilding) at least 50% of the land area of North America to Wilderness off limits to Human Beings.” he continues that “Those Core Wilderness Areas are to be interconnected by Wilderness Corridors also off limits to human beings. Those Wilderness areas are to be surrounded by Buffer Zones that may have limited resource use under the supervision and permitting of the Central Government in collaboration with Non Government Organisations (NGOs). Human population is to be resettled into the remaining 25% of the land into communities described as “Sustainable Communities”. (NOTE: SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES APPEAR TO CORRESPOND TO THE CURRENT INITIATIVE OF “15 Minute Cities”)
1992 UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). 16 pages long only and described by some as principles only, bland and vague (eg Henry Lamb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vW9ORaIR_w ). Signed by 150 World Leaders. President George Bush refused to sign the Treaty but not long after President Bill Clinton (Al Gore was then Vice President ) did sign it. Key features include: Nations will create a sytem of protected areas – seemingly not controversial as 12% of USA land area was already protected. CBD Article 25 – ‘There shall be created a Conference of the Parties (ie established annual COP) that shall create a subsidiary body that shall produce a Global Biodiversity Assessment (GBA)
1994 1st Conference of the Parties (ie COP1) in Berlin- which arose from the recommendations of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) report of 1992. At COP1 the U N Environment Programme present to COP1 a report titled: “A Global Biodiversity Assessment” (GBA),
1994 A Global Biodiversity Assessment” (GBA) report. 1140 pages long and explains how to implement the Convention (or Treaty) on Biological Diversity. The last 200 pages deals with a system of protected areas. The last 200 pages, section 13, of the Global Biodiversity Assessment, deal specifically with a system of protected areas (see page 915) which are core wilderness areas surrounded by buffer zones. The Global Biodiversity Assessment Report on Page 773 proposes a substantial reduction of the world population (but does not specify how) https://archive.org/details/united-nati ... 3/mode/2up The Global Biodiversity Assessment Report on Page 993 says the recently published 1992 Wildlands project, the controversial long-term strategy (100 or 200 years), (see above) is the central theme of protected areas… to expand natural areas (ie in effect by Rewilding) to cover as much as 30% of the US land area. (Note: ’30 by 30′ ie: 30% by 2030 is now a key UN Sustainable Development theme). https://archive.org/details/united-nati ... 3/mode/2up
1994, The campaign that blocked the international signing and adoption of the The Global Biodiversity Assessment as a binding treaty (including internationally mandated human population reduction -along with rewilding) : A detailed account of the nail biting campaign that at the last minute blocked the adoption of the treaty – with what could have mandated extensive Rewilding and population relocation & reduction is on this link: https://nwri.org/the-wildlands-project/ ... s-project/ “On July 19, Dr. Michael Coffman, a Director of Maine Conservation Rights Institute, and a regional director for the Alliance for America, was in Washington talking to Senator Mitchell’s staff and to Senator Dole’s staff, trying to convince them that the Treaty would have the effect of making the “Wildlands Project,” the objective of the Treaty’s implementation. The study revealed the existence of a draft of the Global Biodiversity Assessment, required by the Treaty, and the identification of the “Wildlands Project” (which includes extensive Rewilding) as a primary mechanism for Treaty implementation.” “…..about an hour before the Senate debate, Voight received a call from Mitchell’s office reporting that the Treaty would be withdrawn.”
1995 Video : Eco Fraud – An Interview With Dr. Michael S. Coffman on the On Target show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNkgjcosteM He discusses a wide range of environmental issues that are being used to scare people into being willing to give up their Constitutional protections to “save” themselves by creating “global governance”. From 34 minutes he discusses the UN’s plan to protect biodiversity in the Convention on Biological Diversity will not only reduce biodiversity, but will lock up to half of America into wilderness reserves and corridors. Dr. Michael Coffman was an author, researcher, speaker, and founding contributor to the fight against Agenda 21 Sustainable Development. He was President of Environmental Perspectives, Inc., and Executive Director of Sovereignty International. Dr. Coffman played a key role in stopping the ratification of the Biodiversity Treaty in the US Senate. He died in 2017.
1996 Video: Henry Lamb talking at the 1996 Granada Forum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vW9ORaIR_w Henry Lamb was the first to discover Agenda 21 and sound the alarm. He wrote the book ‘The Rise of Global Governance, and Agenda 21’. He also produced a series of videos on Agenda 21. Each stand as invaluable tools for anyone wanting to know where this evil agenda came from and why it must be stopped. Lamb died in 2012.
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NOTE: DELIVERY OF AGENDA 21 WAS INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN COMPLETED BY THE BEGINNING OF THE 21st CENTURY – IE BY THE YEAR 2000, BUT WAS NOT. THE ABOVE PRE- 2000 UN & CO INITIATIVES (INCLUDING THEIR REWILDING ASPECTS) INCLUDING AGENDA 21 APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN MOSTLY SUBSTANTIALLY RETAINED, REITERATED AND REAFFIRMED, SOME ALMOST VERBATIM, IN THE CURRENT AGENDA 2030 & GENERALLY IN CURRENT UN & WEF POLICY AS SUMMARISED IN THE POST 2000 CONTINUATION OF THE TIMELINE BELOW.
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4.2 2000 to date: Global reiteration of Agenda 21 as Agenda 203 and expansion of the preceding Rewilding principles
2003 July 15 to date. WEF has been listed as a participant of the UN’s Global Compact . Global Compact is a mechanism to advance the global goals of the UN. https://unglobalcompact.org/what-is-gc/ ... omic-Forum
2011 June . Rewilding Europe was formally established as an independent, not-for-profit foundation (ANBI status) registered in the Netherlands. “Rewilding is being practised at scale across Europe. The application of rewilding principles, models and tools is delivering measurable, demonstrable, and sustained benefits for nature and people. With many actors we create a Europe that is richer in nature and more resilient to climate change. Rewilding Europe currently incorporates two limited liability companies, the Rewilding European Capital B.V. and the Rewilding Europe B.V”..https://rewildingeurope.com/
2014 August USA Tea party against Agenda21 (An example of push back against Agenda 21) “In recent years the United Nation’s Agenda 21 policy has become the rallying cry for many in the Tea Party who believe that the U.N. threatens American sovereignty. This concern led to the introduction of anti-Agenda 21 legislation in 26 states in 2012 and 2013”. “…The United Nations Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of environmental extremism, social engineering and global political control… This United Nations Agenda 21 plan of radical so-called “sustainable development” views the American way of life of private property ownership, single family homes, private car ownership, individual travel choices and privately owned farms as destructive to the Environment…” https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2014/ ... s-the-u-s/
2015 Rewilding Britain established Rewilding Britain is an independent charity committed to catalysing rewilding and influencing rewilding policy across all of Britain. We are the first and only country-wide organisation in Britain focusing on rewilding and the amazing benefits it can bring for people, nature and climate. Rewilding Britain’s current motto is: ” 30% BY 2030″ Rewilding Britain’s vision for achieving 30% by 2030 is to expand the scale, quality and connectivity of our native habitats through: The creation of core rewilding areas across at least 5% of Britain. https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/about-us/manifesto https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/abo ... ur-funding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewilding_Britain World Economic Forum on Rewilding Britain: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/ ... in-forests “…rewilding Britain could absorb even more CO2 than tree planting” “…support marginal upland farming in shifting from low-productivity sheep and deer ranching to rewilding.” https://find-and-update.company-informa ... y/CE003335 Income: £1,802,042. Rewilding Cornwall (currently only a subset of the Rewilding Britain website) https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/loc ... ng-network “A Cornwall Rewilding Network is currently at the planning stage. We will release more details here once it has been launched.”
2015 United Nations (“UN”) Sustainable Development Summit. Agenda 2030, also known as the “Sustainable Development Goals”, is a set of goals decided upon at the United Nations (“UN”) at the 2015 Sustainable Development Summit. Agenda 2030 takes all of the goals set by Agenda 21 (including those relating to Rewilding) and re-asserts them as the basis for “sustainable development”. Goal 15. Protect, restore (ie Rewilding) and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss” became Agenda 2030 SDG15 “Life on Land”: Three of the UN’s foundational documents appear to continue to at least in part inform the aims of Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goal 15 (SDG15) ie the 1992 Biodiversity Treaty; the 1992 Wildlands Project and the 1995 Global Biodiversity Assessment (all three are as referred to earlier in the timeline above showing the continuity of intentions including tose of rewilding. https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... nt-goals–2 ”
2019, June The UN-WEF Strategic Partnership Framework was signed to accelerate the implementation of Agenda 2030. The WEF represents the financial “elites.” https://expose-news.com/2022/10/21/un-w ... eat-reset/ The United Nations (“UN”) “unites” the governments of 193 countries of the world. Whilst the World Economic Forum (“WEF”) “unites” 1,000 of the world’s largest corporations. The two are joined by a strategic partnership to implement the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030 an agenda which aims to control every aspect of our lives. None of these organisations or companies has officials which represent the people. We have not elected them into office to govern or make decisions on our behalf. And, no electorate has been asked if their goals are our goals or if their goals will create the world we, the people, want. Within the UN’s Sustainable Policy, which Britain has adopted, we find the objective to remove private ownership whilst at the same time we also find the objective to re-wild the countryside – the UN envisions that most of the people in the world will be living in cities by 2050. https://expose-news.com/2021/09/14/buil ... ts-agenda/
2020 The Global Rewilding Alliance, was created.
2020 Boris Johnson promising to rewild a third of the country by 2030. “Boris Johnson has promised to restore to nature 30 per cent of Britain by 2030 as he signs a biodiversity pledge with other UN leaders…. “https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/0 ... tain-2030/
2020 January The World Economic Forum issued a report entitled “Nature Risk Rising. Why the Crisis Engulfing Nature Matters for Business and the Economy.” “Our research shows that $44 trillion of economic value generation – more than half of the world’s total GDP – is moderately or highly dependent on nature and its services and is therefore exposed to nature loss. Together, the three largest sectors that are highly dependent on nature generate close to $8 trillion of gross value added (GVA): construction ($4 trillion); agriculture ($2.5 trillion); and food and beverages ($1.4 trillion). This is roughly twice the size of the German economy. This is particularly bad news when put next to the current measurements of global warming.” https://247wallst.com/energy-economy/20 ... d-at-risk/
2020 November Global Rewilding Alliance created https://globalrewilding.earth/take-action “….global partners include the IUCN, World Bank, World Resources Institute, World Economic Forum and Society for Ecological Restoration.” “As part of the planning for WILD11 (11th World Wilderness Congress), our many collaborators worked with us to create the Global Charter for Rewilding the Earth which is the foundation for the Global Rewilding Alliance that is now an official implementing partner of the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration. WILD will act as secretariat and facilitator of this Global Rewilding Alliance. “A prime aim of the Alliance will be to get official recognition, through inclusion in language and global action plans, of the term and concept of “rewilding“ as the most advanced form of restoration and as the best and most cost-effective nature-based solution in solving the dual climate/biodiversity crisis.” The World Economic Forum () state: “The Global Rewilding Alliance, which was created in 2020, says rewilding the Earth will “stabilize the climate, halt mass extinction, and reduce the risks of new pandemics” (NOTE: NO EXPLANATION APPEARS TO BE OFFERED REGARDING HOW REWILDING WILL REDUCE THE RISK OF NEW PANDEMICS) . https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/10/ ... ng-nature/
2020 December The Guardian “2022: the year rewilding went mainstream – and a biodiversity deal gave the world hope” “Away from Cop15, rewilding came to the fore in 2022, with projects across the globe, from the reintroduction of bison and cluster rewilding in the UK to big ambitions in Argentina, lessons learned in the Netherlands and the US, and the 10th Rewilding Europe project launched. Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellie Goulding were two celebrities who expressed their support for the movement during the Age of Extinction’s Wild world project.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... world-hope
2021 WEF meeting at Davos, ..since when WEF has publicly discussed how these goals can be used to achieve King Charles’ “Great Reset.” https://expose-news.com/2022/09/20/meet ... arles-iii/ Charles launched three related instruments at Davos 2020: the Terra Carta, the Sustainable Markets Initiative and the Sustainable Markets Council. The Terra Carta is a 17-page “Earth Charter” created by Charles and released on 11 January 2021.The voluntary framework commits companies and investors to ensure their businesses are aligned with preserving the world’s biodiversity – protecting 50% of the biosphere by mid-century- and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. (50% – a figure originally mentioned in 1992 Wildlands Report – and would presumably have to include substantial Rewilding to be achievable.)
2021 “After taking office, President Biden signed an executive order announcing his America the Beautiful plan to conserve 30% of US land and water by 2030. He challenged Americans to collaboratively “conserve, connect, and restore (ie rewild) the lands, waters, and wildlife upon which we all depend” at a national scale ” (US Departments, p. 9: Here, we take a major step in advancing President Biden’s plan by envisioning a bold and science-based rewilding of publicly owned federal lands….: https://americanstewards.us/the-wildlan ... t-returns/
2021 June “UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration”. The objective of the UN Decade is to “build a strong, diverse global movement towards a sustainable future by accelerating restoration (ie including rewilding) through building political momentum for restoration (ie including rewilding) and thousands of practical initiatives. The official launch of the UN Decade was on World Environment day, 5 June 2021, and the initiative will last through 2030, which also is the deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals and the timeline scientists consider the last chance to prevent catastrophic climate change. Lead agencies are the UN Environment Programme and the FAO with “collaborating agencies”: UNFCC (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change), CBD (Convention on Biological Diversity), UNCCD (UN Convention to Combat Desertification), UNECE (Un Economic Commission for Europe) and UNESCO. Other global partners include the IUCN, World Bank, World Resources Institute, World Economic Forum and Society for Ecological Restoration (ie including rewilding) . https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/06/1093362 https://www.unesco.org/en/ecosystems-restoration-decade
2021 October. In Your Area Newsroom. Friends of the Earth believe that rewilding areas of Cornwall is not only good for the environment and wildlife but could also help create some 6,860 green jobs in the Duchy by 2030. https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/cornw ... n-england/
2021 November UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCC) COP 26 WEF: Climate change summit: What is COP26 and why does it matter? https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/05/ ... ge-summit/ , “In the fight against climate change, the UN says time is fast running out. So COP26, the United Nations climate summit, is an opportunity to agree to global action that’s seriously overdue.” “The World Economic Forum estimates that nature is responsible for half of global GDP ($44 trillion) and that shifting to a nature-positive economy in key sectors could create 395 million jobs by 2030.”
Climate Crisis Report: “10 Ways Rewilding Can Help Beat the Climate Crisis” https://rskgroup.com/wp-content/uploads ... report.pdf A report by RSK presented at COP26.”In November 2021, the UK is hosting COP26, so all eyes will be on us as we seek to deliver against our climate commitments and recover from the coronavirus pandemic”. “Why does Britain need to rewild? Britain is one of the most ecologically depleted nations on earth. Once, species like bears and wolves roamed wild but we’ve seen populations of our most critical species plummet by 60% since 1970. Agricultural intensification, ever expanding urban development and an increasingly polluted environment have all taken their toll …” https://rskgroup.com/wp-content/uploads ... report.pdf
2021 December The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 15 (The 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) took place in Kunming, China. In January 2021, the CBD published a 21-point draft of the agreement, which commits signatories to protect at least 30% of the planet, control invasive species, and reduce pollution from plastic waste and excess nutrients by 50%. https://www.cbd.int/decision/cop/?id=13394 The first part concluded negotiations on a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.
2022 March “Living within Limits”. Video. The Club of Rome: The Limits to Growth + 50 years on: Global equity for a healthy planet – Anniversary Webinar Series | , (94 mins) https://youtu.be/ItLNPn4rXxU
2022 Oct World Economic Forum & rewilding: “Rewilding: letting nature do its own thing.” , https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/10/ ... ng-nature/ “The Global Rewilding Alliance, which was created in 2020, says rewilding the Earth will “stabilize the climate, halt mass extinction, and reduce the risks of new pandemics” (AN UNUSUAL CLAIM PERHAPS?)… “Rewilding can help combat climate change and reverse species extinction, Rewilding Britain says.”
2022 December COP15 – the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (“UNCBD”) conference. (COP15 took place in a virtual format, from 11-15 October 2021. The second part of COP 15 was a face-to-face meeting in Kunming, China, from 25 April-8 May 2022.) The plan to “expand natural habitats and corridors to cover as much as 30% of the land area” as was originally proposed in the 1992 The Wildlands Project and reiterated and reinforced in the the 1994 Global Biodiversity Assessment is what is currently now being called the 30 by 30 plan (Note: that The 1995 Global Biodiversity Assessment also proposes a substantial reduction of the world population (but did not specify how) . 30 by 30 is now incorporated in a so-called “New Deal for Nature” which will involve new investments or financial markets worth about $10 trillion over this decade being created to provide opportunities for businesses to “engage” with the plan. Shortly after COP15 concluded, the Indigenous Environmental Network issued a statement which also exposed the private commercial interests planning to profiteer from “Mother Earth.” https://www.reuters.com/business/enviro ... 022-12-08/ 30 by 30 has been described as: .. the biggest land grab in history marketed under the guise of “protecting biodiversity.” Survival International estimates that the plan will displace around 300 million indigenous people worldwide from their native lands and forests in the name of “conservation.” And it will make a very few very rich while doing so.
2023 April An announcement has been made by the World Economic Forum (“WEF”) that World leaders will be gathering together later this year (September) to “accelerate the implementation of Agenda 2030,”. “The United Nations (UN) and the WEF appear frustrated by a lack of progress made towards their “Great Reset” ideology, alongside Agenda 2030,..!” https://www.legitgov.org/world-economic ... genda-2030
2023 May WHO’s draft text of WHO CA+ (Comprehensive Agreement+) proposes COP (Conference of the Parties) to be established as in effect an unaccountable unelected international bureaucracy. Option 8a “One Health” would cover rewilding etc. See UK Column News 6th June 2023 from 1hour: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-colum ... -june-2023
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5. Taking Farmland Out of Food Production for “Climate Change” mitigation and/or Rewilding
Predicated on the claim that it will both tackle “Climate Change” and/or restore(rewild) nature there appears to be a global push for taking land out of food production often with a stated intention to restore (rewild) it to a natural state. This has started to be actioned relatively recently.
(NOTE: THERE HAS BEEN GROWING COMMENT THAT THE CONCEPT OF “MAN MADE CLIMATE CHANGE” HAS BEEN PROMOTED AS A JUSTIFICATION FOR GLOBAL GOVERNANCE OR GOVERNMENT & APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN SELECTED AS A (SUPPOSED)CRISIS THAT WOULD LEND JUSTIFICATION TO A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT BY THE CLUB OF ROME IN 1968 FROM SEVERAL GLOBAL CRISIS OPTION .
RECENT STUDIES HAVE CONFIRMED THE LINK BETWEEN CO2 AND GLOBAL WARMING – BUT SUGGESTING THAT THE WARMING COMES FIRST FOLLOWED LATER BY RISING CO2. THE PREDICTIONS OF VARIOUS COMPUTER MODELS OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS CAN NOW BE TESTED AGAINST WHAT HAS ACTUALLY HAPPENED AND MOST IF NOT ALL ARE INCREASINGLY BEING SHOWN TO HAVE BEEN WHOLLY UNRELIABLE IN PREDICTING THE PRESENT DAY SITUATION HENCE ARE ALSO LIKELY TO BE UNRELIABLE IN PREDICTING THE FUTURE AND SO WITH SUCH LOW TO NON EXISTENT PREDICTIVE RELIABILITY ARE UNFIT AS A BASIS FOR LOCAL, NATIONAL OR GLOBAL POLICY AND ACTIONS.
THE ABOVE IS CONSIDERED TO BE A TOPIC IN IT’S OWN RIGHT AND SO IS NOT EXAMINED IN THIS WORKING PAPER BUT SOME STARTING POINTS FOR THE READER’S SELF STUDY INCLUDE:
https://clintel.org/ – over 1,500 leading world scientists challenge the narrative of “Anthropogenic Climate Change” – Climate Intelligence (CLINTEL) is an independent foundation that operates in the fields of climate change and climate policy. CLINTEL was founded in 2019 by emeritus professor of geophysics Guus Berkhout and science journalist Marcel Crok.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Z5FdwWw_c Annual GWPF Lecture – Patrick Moore (scientist & founder of Greenpeace) – Should We Celebrate Carbon Dioxide?
5.1 International Taking Farmland Out of Food Production
2017 January Dr Adrian Colston: Blog. “Catastrophe in uplands farming…..” “…in October 2015, the Dartmoor National Park Authority invited Monbiot to come and speak on rewilding to the biennial National Parks Conference [2]. His used of words such as ‘sheepwrecked’ and ‘the white plague’ to describe his views of the sheep grazing regimes on Dartmoor caused widespread offence amongst the farming community [3] but won him many supporters from elsewhere.” https://adriancolston.wordpress.com/201 ... -dartmoor/
2022 April Report by Ice Age Farmer Biden pays farms to STOP – EU out of feed – Meat taxes & chicken permits – Up to you to GROW FOOD!Even as Biden and Trudeau announce food shortages, farmers are being paid to stop farming. Chickens are now designated illegal animals, due to bird flu (diagnosed by a fraudulent PCR test), also justifying millions of birds being culled in the UK and France. The EU is culling livestock as they run out of animal feed, and in the UK, cows are being exterminated due to a lack of farmworkers. Meanwhile, the Netherlands is seriously considering a meat tax. https://www.sott.net/article/466391-Ice ... -GROW-FOOD
2023 February. World Health Organisation (WHO)’s Pandemic Accord Will Give It Control Over U.S. Livestock and Food Supply Parties must acknowledge “the creation of the Quadripartite” to “better address any One Health-related issue.” The draft states explicitly that the “Quadripartite” consists of the WHO—whose top three donors include the U.S., Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the People’s Republic of China—the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Organisation for Animal Health, and the United Nations Environment Programme. https://earlking56.family.blog/2023/02/ ... od-supply/
2023 April. The People’s Voice. WEF Orders Governments To Start Limiting Food To Fight Climate Change – The People’s Voice. Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum has been laying groundwork to begin starving the people it considers useless and has now ordered governments in the West to begin attacking the food supply. (https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/wef-orders-g ... te-change/)
2023 USA This Administration’s Agenda Is To CONTROL The FOOD And To CONTROL The PEOPLE”! 30 x 30 Biden Bill – don’t let our farmers die. Rumble (https://rumble.com/v2h6rte-this-adminis ... peopl.html)
2023 The United Nations and Private Land Ownership – Setting the Stage for Farmland Expropriation. It certainly appears that society is on the cusp of major change, particularly if the ruling class gets its way. One of the goals of Agenda 21 is to end private property ownership and all farming of animals by 2050. https://twitter.com/wef/status/799632174043561984?s=21
2023 April Australia – Globalist Plans to Steal Farmland & Regional Land THE REAL AGENDA BEHIND THE VOICE TO PARLIAMENT: Exposing the Globalist’s Plan to Steal Australian Farmlands and Regional Land. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese vows, “I’m here to change the country.” It is not a vow, but a threat. https://stephenreason.substack.com/p/th ... -the-voice Stephen Reason: https://stephenreason.substack.com/p/th ... e?r=17nqkb
The forced land acquisition will not end with farmland. Forest, parklands, nature reserves, coastlines will be geo-fenced and permanently restricted — deemed “sacred,” and non-traversable, forevermore. You will not dare trespass on the Globalist’s newly acquired land; indeed, you will not even venture beyond the radius permitted by your carbon credit allocation. https://telegra.ph/THE-REAL-AGENDA-BEHI ... Land-04-10 (https://ctreaderbot.vercel.app/a/CsW7tyl42ifh3DY.html)
2023 YouTube: Farmland WARS: The Global TAKEOVER of America’s Land | Glenn TV | Ep 244 There’s a world war raging right now between globalist and nationalist authoritarians. All sides want absolute control, https://youtu.be/M5WBTDJyDug) https://thefederalist706261013.wordpres ... rld-order/ https://mrtrueman.posthaven.com/governm ... en-permits
2023 May Democrat USA President Joe Biden’s “climate czar” John Kerry is calling for farmers to stop growing food in order to meet the administration’s radical “net zero” goals for lowering “emissions.” Kerry, Biden’s Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, issued the warning during a green agenda conference in Washington D.C. During the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) AIM for Climate Summit, Kerry told the audience that “we can’t get to net zero, we won’t get this job done, unless agriculture is front and centre as part of the solution.” Kerry warned attendees that his and other world leaders’ “lives depend” on farmers ceasing their operations. https://slaynews.com/news/john-kerry-fa ... emissions/
2023 May Expose news. John Kerry: “Destruction of farming is front and centre in the fight against climate change,” says. “Kerry’s narrative to starve people by cutting off their food supplies to save people from starving seems bizarre. But that’s because the agenda he’s promoting uses climate and greenhouse gas emissions as a smokescreen. … He was accused as far back as 2011 of being the US Senate’s “most globalist-oriented insider” when he was named as one of 12 members of the newly formed “Super Congress.” https://expose-news.com/2023/05/31/dest ... nd-centre/

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5. Taking Farmland Out of Food Production for “Climate Change” mitigation and/or Rewilding
Predicated on the claim that it will both tackle “Climate Change” and/or restore(rewild) nature there appears to be a global push for taking land out of food production often with a stated intention to restore (rewild) it to a natural state. This has started to be actioned relatively recently.
(NOTE: THERE HAS BEEN GROWING COMMENT THAT THE CONCEPT OF “MAN MADE CLIMATE CHANGE” HAS BEEN PROMOTED AS A JUSTIFICATION FOR GLOBAL GOVERNANCE OR GOVERNMENT & APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN SELECTED AS A (SUPPOSED)CRISIS THAT WOULD LEND JUSTIFICATION TO A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT BY THE CLUB OF ROME IN 1968 FROM SEVERAL GLOBAL CRISIS OPTION .
RECENT STUDIES HAVE CONFIRMED THE LINK BETWEEN CO2 AND GLOBAL WARMING – BUT SUGGESTING THAT THE WARMING COMES FIRST FOLLOWED LATER BY RISING CO2. THE PREDICTIONS OF VARIOUS COMPUTER MODELS OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS CAN NOW BE TESTED AGAINST WHAT HAS ACTUALLY HAPPENED AND MOST IF NOT ALL ARE INCREASINGLY BEING SHOWN TO HAVE BEEN WHOLLY UNRELIABLE IN PREDICTING THE PRESENT DAY SITUATION HENCE ARE ALSO LIKELY TO BE UNRELIABLE IN PREDICTING THE FUTURE AND SO WITH SUCH LOW TO NON EXISTENT PREDICTIVE RELIABILITY ARE UNFIT AS A BASIS FOR LOCAL, NATIONAL OR GLOBAL POLICY AND ACTIONS.
THE ABOVE IS CONSIDERED TO BE A TOPIC IN IT’S OWN RIGHT AND SO IS NOT EXAMINED IN THIS WORKING PAPER BUT SOME STARTING POINTS FOR THE READER’S SELF STUDY INCLUDE:
https://clintel.org/ – over 1,500 leading world scientists challenge the narrative of “Anthropogenic Climate Change” – Climate Intelligence (CLINTEL) is an independent foundation that operates in the fields of climate change and climate policy. CLINTEL was founded in 2019 by emeritus professor of geophysics Guus Berkhout and science journalist Marcel Crok.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Z5FdwWw_c Annual GWPF Lecture – Patrick Moore (scientist & founder of Greenpeace) – Should We Celebrate Carbon Dioxide?
5.1 International Taking Farmland Out of Food Production
2017 January Dr Adrian Colston: Blog. “Catastrophe in uplands farming…..” “…in October 2015, the Dartmoor National Park Authority invited Monbiot to come and speak on rewilding to the biennial National Parks Conference [2]. His used of words such as ‘sheepwrecked’ and ‘the white plague’ to describe his views of the sheep grazing regimes on Dartmoor caused widespread offence amongst the farming community [3] but won him many supporters from elsewhere.” https://adriancolston.wordpress.com/201 ... -dartmoor/
2022 April Report by Ice Age Farmer Biden pays farms to STOP – EU out of feed – Meat taxes & chicken permits – Up to you to GROW FOOD!Even as Biden and Trudeau announce food shortages, farmers are being paid to stop farming. Chickens are now designated illegal animals, due to bird flu (diagnosed by a fraudulent PCR test), also justifying millions of birds being culled in the UK and France. The EU is culling livestock as they run out of animal feed, and in the UK, cows are being exterminated due to a lack of farmworkers. Meanwhile, the Netherlands is seriously considering a meat tax. https://www.sott.net/article/466391-Ice ... -GROW-FOOD
2023 February. World Health Organisation (WHO)’s Pandemic Accord Will Give It Control Over U.S. Livestock and Food Supply Parties must acknowledge “the creation of the Quadripartite” to “better address any One Health-related issue.” The draft states explicitly that the “Quadripartite” consists of the WHO—whose top three donors include the U.S., Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the People’s Republic of China—the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Organisation for Animal Health, and the United Nations Environment Programme. https://earlking56.family.blog/2023/02/ ... od-supply/
2023 April. The People’s Voice. WEF Orders Governments To Start Limiting Food To Fight Climate Change – The People’s Voice. Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum has been laying groundwork to begin starving the people it considers useless and has now ordered governments in the West to begin attacking the food supply. (https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/wef-orders-g ... te-change/)
2023 USA This Administration’s Agenda Is To CONTROL The FOOD And To CONTROL The PEOPLE”! 30 x 30 Biden Bill – don’t let our farmers die. Rumble (https://rumble.com/v2h6rte-this-adminis ... peopl.html)
2023 The United Nations and Private Land Ownership – Setting the Stage for Farmland Expropriation. It certainly appears that society is on the cusp of major change, particularly if the ruling class gets its way. One of the goals of Agenda 21 is to end private property ownership and all farming of animals by 2050. https://twitter.com/wef/status/799632174043561984?s=21
2023 April Australia – Globalist Plans to Steal Farmland & Regional Land THE REAL AGENDA BEHIND THE VOICE TO PARLIAMENT: Exposing the Globalist’s Plan to Steal Australian Farmlands and Regional Land. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese vows, “I’m here to change the country.” It is not a vow, but a threat. https://stephenreason.substack.com/p/th ... -the-voice Stephen Reason: https://stephenreason.substack.com/p/th ... e?r=17nqkb
The forced land acquisition will not end with farmland. Forest, parklands, nature reserves, coastlines will be geo-fenced and permanently restricted — deemed “sacred,” and non-traversable, forevermore. You will not dare trespass on the Globalist’s newly acquired land; indeed, you will not even venture beyond the radius permitted by your carbon credit allocation. https://telegra.ph/THE-REAL-AGENDA-BEHI ... Land-04-10 (https://ctreaderbot.vercel.app/a/CsW7tyl42ifh3DY.html)
2023 YouTube: Farmland WARS: The Global TAKEOVER of America’s Land | Glenn TV | Ep 244 There’s a world war raging right now between globalist and nationalist authoritarians. All sides want absolute control, https://youtu.be/M5WBTDJyDug) https://thefederalist706261013.wordpres ... rld-order/ https://mrtrueman.posthaven.com/governm ... en-permits
2023 May Democrat USA President Joe Biden’s “climate czar” John Kerry is calling for farmers to stop growing food in order to meet the administration’s radical “net zero” goals for lowering “emissions.” Kerry, Biden’s Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, issued the warning during a green agenda conference in Washington D.C. During the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) AIM for Climate Summit, Kerry told the audience that “we can’t get to net zero, we won’t get this job done, unless agriculture is front and centre as part of the solution.” Kerry warned attendees that his and other world leaders’ “lives depend” on farmers ceasing their operations. https://slaynews.com/news/john-kerry-fa ... emissions/
2023 May Expose news. John Kerry: “Destruction of farming is front and centre in the fight against climate change,” says. “Kerry’s narrative to starve people by cutting off their food supplies to save people from starving seems bizarre. But that’s because the agenda he’s promoting uses climate and greenhouse gas emissions as a smokescreen. … He was accused as far back as 2011 of being the US Senate’s “most globalist-oriented insider” when he was named as one of 12 members of the newly formed “Super Congress.” https://expose-news.com/2023/05/31/dest ... nd-centre/

5.2 Europe Taking Farmland Out of Food Production
2022 December Netherlands’ Land Grab: If there’s one thing bureaucrats like to do it’s to push people around but Dutch farmers aren’t having it. Government leaders claim that the radical restructuring of Dutch farming is necessary for the good of the environment. However, facts suggest that this has little to do with the environment and much to do with centralising power. https://expose-news.com/2022/12/15/if-t ... ike-to-do/
2023 February “Irish farmers warn of an uprising if Government continues with “vicious” measures to meet net-zero targets” “Ireland will need to quadruple its afforestation targets, reduce its livestock by 30% and re-wet 90% of reclaimed land if the agricultural sector is to meet net-zero targets.” https://expose-news.com/2023/02/15/iris ... -measures/
2023 March. Netherlands’ Land Grab: Dutch farmers are not safe yet. After the stunning victory in the elections in the Netherlands this week, some are warning that the BBB’s seats may not be sufficient to stop the Dutch government’s land grab. https://expose-news.com/2023/03/18/neth ... -safe-yet/
2023 March Tucker Carlson interviews Dutch Farmer rep: WAR ON FARMERS Could Lead To Mass Starvation. Learn How To Protect Your Family WAR ON FARMERS Could Lead To Mass Starvation | Learn How To Protect Your Family https://rumble.com/v2j1w4i-war-on-farme ... -fami.html
2023 March “Netherlands’ Land Grab: Dutch farmers are not safe yet” https://expose-news.com/2023/03/18/neth ... -safe-yet/
2023 May The Expose. Netherlands Land Grab: Dutch farmers prepare for a battle. Despite the election results and the outrage, the Dutch government is pushing ahead with its plans to destroy Netherlands’ agricultural sector. (https://expose-news.com/2023/05/17/dutc ... -a-battle/)
2023 May The Expose. Netherlands’ Land Grab: What is driving the Dutch nation to attack itself and destroy the bedrock of its society? Under the plans, farmers will be offered financial compensation to stop farming. However, the deal isn’t a “willing buyer willing seller” deal, the term farmers are being threatened with is “compulsory farm buyouts.” https://expose-news.com/2023/05/06/neth ... the-dutch/
2023 May Ireland. “The Department for Agriculture has said a report outlining a 200,000 reduction in dairy cows was a “modelling document”. It was reported yesterday that cows would have to be culled at a cost of €600,000 to taxpayers over the next three years to meet climate emissions targets. Together beef and dairy account for around two-thirds of the country’s agricultural output with around 90 per cent of the produce exported.” https://forums.mixedmartialarts.com/t/a ... st/3831309
Irish government proposes culling 200,000 cows to meet climate targets “The Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association called the deal a “sellout” that would make many farms unviable. Cutting emissions by a quarter will drive many farms into bankruptcy” https://expose-news.com/2023/06/01/iris ... 0000-cows/
2023 “The Battle Is Over” DEVASTATING NEWS For Farmers Just Announced. Massive ‘forced’ Farm Closures to go ahead!! This latest shocking, but not surprising news will significantly contribute to massive food shortages and massive increases in food prices across Europe over the coming years!! After appeals from the Dutch farmers, the EU has finally passed a law for the forced closure of farms in the Netherlands which is the number one, most productive, farming country on planet Earth! All orchestrated by the WEF, under the fake claim that Nitrogen fertilisers which create CO2 creates global warming, which is stated to be ‘fake science’ by many independent climatologists (i.e. not the climatologists funded by the global elites) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-HI_Np9xFQ

5.3 Britain Taking Farmland Out of Food Production
October 2018 Cambrian News “A project to ‘rewild’ a massive area of north Ceredigion and the Dyfi Valley, including parts of the sea in Cardigan Bay, has been slammed as “cultural imperialism”. https://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/re ... rea-102678
2019 October Daily Post. “Farming anger forces Rewilding Britain to pull out of Summit To Sea project in Mid Wales “A project to ‘rewild’ a massive area of north Ceredigion and the Dyfi Valley, including parts of the sea in Cardigan Bay, has been slammed as “cultural imperialism”. “A statement by Rewilding Britain this morning confirmed it was withdrawing from the scheme followed feedback from farming unions and local communities.” https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local- ... s-17119541
2020 March. Friends of the Earth wants to double UK woodland cover by 2050 – to tackle the climate emergency and make more space for nature. Increasing tree cover is an essential part of a range of measures needed to fight climate change. While woodland currently covers 13% of the UK, approximately 70% of the UK is farmland. It’s clear that if we’re going to double tree cover, some of this farmland will need to be converted into woodland. https://policy.friendsoftheearth.uk/ins ... tree-cover
February 2020 Daily Mail “War of the wild: How trendy metropolitan eco-zealots with close ties to Boris Johnson are set on driving out traditional farming and ‘rewilding’ the land” “…an experiment in ‘rewilding’ — a trendy, but for some, highly controversial form of land management in which large areas of countryside are allowed to revert to nature. Popular with conservationists (but hated by many farmers) it boasts many powerful supporters in the UK. They believe removing land from agricultural production can help fight climate change and reverse the catastrophic decline in wildlife populations we have suffered in recent decades. Boris Johnson’s Government, currently formulating a farm-subsidy policy for life outside the EU, seems particularly keen. Indeed, large amounts of public money could be diverted from traditional farming and used to help rewild the British countryside.” https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -land.html
2021 September BBC 24 “A major new project aims to rewild an area of more than 500,000 acres (202,343ha) in the Highlands. Over a period of 30 years, mountains, hills, glens and forests would be left to natural processes. Moray-based charity Trees for Life is working with Rewilding Europe, along with 20 landowners and six organisations on the project.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... s-58663615
2021 Mail Online (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... trees.html)
2021 May P&J Newspaper, Scotland. Leading Scottish farmer sounds warning over planting trees on productive farmland. “Similar reports from Scotland: farms being shut down in order to “rewild” them and plant trees. Ironically this farmer is worried it will end up INCREASING carbon footprint, to then have to import all food. Mr Connon said: “I am receiving fresh calls every week from despairing farmers and crofters across Scotland telling me of another farm or estate destined for tree planting. “The more of Scotland’s limited productive land that shifts from farming to forestry, the more we are likely to simply offshore our emissions or even increase our carbon footprint.” https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/fa ... -farmland/
2022 January Daily Mail Fury at plan to hand millions to farmers to turn 741,000 acres of land into nature reserves as ‘rewilding cult’ loved by Carrie’s pals the Goldsmith brothers forms centre of shake-up George Eustice launches £2.4billion-a-year plan replacing EU’s £2.4bn common agricultural. Farmers and landowners will be paid for planting trees and restoring wetlands in 15 new nature reserves. The ‘landscape recovery scheme’ will eventually cost the taxpayer £800million a year from 2028. But there are concerns about risk to food security and policy will benefit Britain’s richest landowners. Farmers say Boris Johnson’s ‘mad’ obsession with rewilding will drive smaller farmers out of business. Ministers claim plans will turn 741,000 acres into wildlife habitats in 20 years and will not risk food supply https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... trees.html
2022 January The Spectator “The problem with rewilding. Humans have shaped Britain for thousands of years”Under new plans, just announced by Environment Secretary George Eustice, farmers and landowners in England could be paid to turn large areas of land into nature reserves and restore floodplains.” https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the ... rewilding/
2022 May UK “Farmers Being Paid to Stop Farming”. “It is hard to fathom the UK government’s recent lump-sum- exit- scheme that effectively bribes farmers to retire and turn over their land to woodland, whilst a potential world food crisis looms according to the IMF (International Monetary Fund).” https://libertytactics.co.uk/farmers-be ... p-farming/
2022 January ITV News. “Farmers and landowners to be paid to rewild English countryside” https://www.itv.com/news/2022-01-06/far ... ountryside
2022 The Independent. Enormous tree-planting push will turn farmland into forests to hit net-zero goals. “A major tree-planting push by the government to help the country reach its climate goals will be the biggest in 50 years and could result in some farmland currently used for livestock being repurposed to create new woodlands.” https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-c ... 45086.html
2023 March Devon Live. Farmers fear plans to remove livestock from Dartmoor “Natural England says that the relationship between farming, nature and other impacts like climate change are “not in balance” Dartmoor Natural England: Reflections from Wes Smyth, Natural England’s Area Manager, on how we ensure Dartmoor’s unique wildlife is preserved. https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-ne ... ck-8262004
2023 April Expose News: “A report produced by Oxford University and Imperial College London for the UK Government reveals that all airports will be ordered to close, eating beef and lamb will be made illegal, and construction of new buildings will not be permitted in order to meet the legal commitment of zero emissions by 2050. According to the report this will require the public to never eat beef or lamb ever again. To do this national consumption of beef and lamb will drop by 50% between 2020 and 2029. Then between 2030 and 2049 beef and lamb will be “phased out. However, the timeline of events may speed up significantly because the Government enshrined a new target in law in April 2021 to slash emissions by 78% by the year 2035.” https://expose-news.com/2023/04/12/all- ... te-change/

5.4 Cornwall Taking Farmland Out of Food Production
2023 February Cornwall Live. “Moors plan leaves Cornwall farm families fearing for their livelihoods” Farmers in west Cornwall say they are being “treated like dirt” and feel not heard amid proposals which could see vast swathes of farmland taken out of production. https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornw ... rm-8094536
2022 November Cornwall Live. An area of over 3,000 hectares stretching from St Just to St Ives has been earmarked for protection by Natural England in recognition of its national importance for wildlife. However, with around 13% of that area being farmland, some farmers on Penwith Moors say that new restrictions on their land could threaten their livelihoods, forcing them to sell up. https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornw ... al-7810160
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6. Cornwall: Some recent examples of local level rewilding initiatives
2019 October “Massive plans for a Forest for Cornwall covering 8000 hectares” “The aim is to plant trees to use the carbon emitted by homes, business and machines” https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornw ... ng-3420536 “Forest for Cornwall (F4C) has been chosen as one of only two new Woodland Creation Partnerships funded by Defra’s Nature for Climate Fund.” https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/environment ... p-funding/
2020 June Cornwall Wildlife Trust backs new form of protection for the sea and call on Government for ambitious delivery plan for Highly Protected Marine Areas within a year from June 2020. “In Highly Protected Marine Areas, on the other hand, all damaging activities including fishing, dredging, construction and sea angling would be banned.” https://www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.u ... s-delivery
2019 Cornwall Council report: ‘Climate Change Action Plan’. In the Introduction on page 4 at 1.4 says that “..a fifth of our agricultural land must shift to alternative use”. On page 18 refers to “Cornwall’s … availability of grassland’s suitable for afforestation”. On page 26 under 5.8 ‘Balancing Interventions’ refers to “.. rewilding of previously managed land” (types of previous land use not specified)
2021 March Forest for Cornwall F4C https://www.gov.uk/government/news/defr ... r-cornwall Press release: Defra announces funding boost and new partnership with Forest for Cornwall. Funding boost and new woodland creation partnership formed between Defra and Forest for Cornwall.
2021 October “Cornwall has potential to be largest rewilding area in England” “Cornwall has the potential to lead the way in England when it comes to rewilding and regenerating woodlands. According to new findings by environmental charity Friends of the Earth, in partnership with Rewilding Britain, there are 69,598 acres of potential natural regeneration in Cornwall, making it the largest local authority in England for any rewilding projects. Nationally more than a million acres of new tree cover could be created simply by letting existing woodland regenerate and spread.” https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornw ... rm-8094536 Analysis carried out by Tim Richards from TerraSullis on behalf of environmental charity Friends of the Earth, in partnership with Rewilding Britain also identified the local authority areas with greatest potential for natural woodland regeneration, which include Cornwall, Harrogate and Northumberland. https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/new ... ng-britain
2021 The National Trust in Cornwall- https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/1 ... le-market/ Currently, the six-hectare site consists of three fields of improved grassland. Note: Personal conversation with National Trust staff at the public consultation indicated there were other areas also intended for conversion to woodland as farm tenancies came to an end – ie when they would normally be renewed. It is understood that more farms are to be considered for large scale tree planting as tenant’s contracts come up for renewal.
2021 October Falmouth Packet: “Rewilding in Cornwall could help Council hit climate targets” https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/1 ... e-targets/
2022 Rewilding Cornwall on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rewildingcornwall/
2023 Cornall Science Community: “Rewilding is a progressive conservation strategy that goes beyond protecting natural areas. It aims to restore areas of land to their natural states.” https://cornwallsciencecommunity.org/20 ... -cornwall/
2023 Cabilla, Bodmin Moor – “KICK STARTING REWILDING”: “Natural processes will be kick started on the site through initial interventions. This will include the removal of sheep grazing from most of the site to allow vegetation to naturally regenerate. Other grazing animals will be introduced in low numbers to mimic natural grazing, including Belted Galloway cattle, Cornish black pigs and Dartmoor ponies. Internal fencing will be removed to allow animals to move throughout the farm. The natural regeneration of woodland on site, especially the expansion of existing ancient oak woodland and temperate rainforest, will be encouraged through changes to grazing pressure. Deer management will also be undertaken to reduce pressure on tree saplings. This will be supplemented with additional tree planting, with 100,000 native trees proposed.” https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/rew ... a-cornwall
2023 March “Rewilding. It’s a buzzword. But could keystone species that once shaped Britain – from beavers to boar to bison – be the key to tackling the nature and climate crises?” Text by Award-winning television producer, nature writer and conservationist, Benedict Macdonald, now working as Head of Nature Restoration at Real Wild Estates, a company specialising in restoring nature at scale for landowners, NGOs and communities, https://www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.u ... r-could-be
2023 April Cornwall Wildlife Trust open to public on zoom panel discussion event: ‘Rewilding. Our last hope or a current craze.’ On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP4igEEiLA4
2023 April. UK Column from 40 to 45 minutes. Natural England & re-wilding in Cornwall: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-colum ... april-2023
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7.0 Addendum
7.1 Some comments on how rewilding can be a mechanism for wealth transfer.
Below are a few extracted comments from links used in the document above where financial benefit to “the elite” from rewilding is indicated.
30 by 30 is now incorporated in a so-called “New Deal for Nature” which will involve new investments or financial markets worth about $10 trillion over this decade being created to provide opportunities for businesses to “engage” with the plan.
30 by 30 has been described as: .. the biggest land grab in history marketed under the guise of “protecting biodiversity.”
2021 November, The World Economic Forum estimates that nature is responsible for half of global GDP ($44 trillion) and that shifting to a nature-positive economy in key sectors could create 395 million jobs by 2030. https://rskgroup.com/wp-content/uploads ... report.pdf

7.2 World Human Population Reduction – “to save the planet”
Whilst human population reduction “to save the planet” does not seem to have reappeared formally in writing in UN or WEF public documents since activists in 1994 blocked the signing as a Treaty the UN’s Global Biodversity Assessment (which included substantial human population reduction) the issue has continued to be aired. For example:
2020 WEF Davos meeting: Jane Goodall, British Ambassador for Peace to the United Nations, at the WEF forum at Davos in 2020 said, “We can solve climate change by depopulating the earth by a mere 7.5 billion people. We cannot hide away from human population growth. Because it underlies so many of the other problems. All these things we talk about wouldn’t be a problem if there was the size of population there was 500 years ago” Video: https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/15 ... 2563503105 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/0 ... nge-video/
2022 December Expose news. “Self-appointed elites want far fewer people in the world and they have wanted this for a long time” “The depopulation agenda has been festering behind the scenes for a long time and now it is coming out in the open and going mainstream.” https://expose-news.com/2022/12/31/self ... er-people/
2023 May Expose news “Jane Goodall is not a kindly grandmother; she is a promoter of eugenics and reduction of the world’s population to 450 million” “To convince the public the UN’s “30 x 30” goal is a “good thing,” the World Economic Forum (“WEF”) and the World Wildlife Fund (“WWF”) have chosen three leading influencers – Greta Thunberg, Jane Goodall and David Attenborough – to market the ideology under the guise of a “New Deal for Nature.” https://expose-news.com/2022/12/29/jane ... andmother/

7.3 Some guides to Agenda 2030:
2023 June UK COLUMN. Interview: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/unpickin ... andi-adams
2022 November UK COLUMN. Agenda 2030, — Good 3 part video resume: Part 1 For one mother, a brief meeting with Bill Gates led to conducting a dedicated investigation of the Global Biodiversity Assessment (from 10 minutes 30 seconds) https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/agenda-2030-part-1 Part 2 – the current SDG15 “Life on Land” is discussed from circa 50 minutes & Limits to Growth from circa 1hour 5 minutes. https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/agenda-2030-part-2. Part 3 . Land being taken away from Farmers for rewilding from circa 39 minutes 50 seconds & from 45 minutes UN/WEF Strategic Partnership to accelerate implementation of the 17 Agenda 2030 SDGs (including SDG15 Life on Land which includes Rewilding) https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/agenda-2030-part-3).
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