Large areas are to be reforested under the EU’s new climate plan

It will now be the law for all EU countries to reclaim eroded land. However, if the European Commission receives its bill. Eroded farmland, drained beach meadows and clear cuttings will be reclaimed and reforested.

It is a measure against the current extinction of organisms and a way to capture greenhouse gas emissions. A study by the European Environment Agency (EEA) shows that cities and concrete infrastructure continue to expand and that landscapes are increasingly fragmented. In its forthcoming work reports 2 and 3, the UN Climate Group also recommends so-called IPCC nature-based solutions.

About large areas

Climate change and the extinction of current species are related. For example, if the pests continue to disappear, the food supply will be threatened for a long time.

According to a study in the journal Nature, it may be one of the cheapest and most effective weapons in the fight against climate crisis. According to the study, the need to re-destroy an area parallel to China would be global. You can connect almost half of the historically man-made emissions from the middle of the 19th century. This can stop up to 70 percent of the extinction of ongoing species. But these are huge areas.

The most populous United Kingdom has formally begun work called rewilding. When wild animals such as wildebeest, beavers and sea eagles are reintroduced, there are constant conflicts with agriculture, among others.

Golf course plans create conflict

For example, in the coastal town of Southend-on-Sea, 600 hectares of farmland have been set up to recreate coastal meadows and lakes for migratory birds to rest. In Brighton, the City Council decided in 2020 not to when the historic golf club Waterhall wanted to renew its lease since 1923.

Today, the golf house is deserted and the bunkers are growing again. Here, herbaceous grasslands are regenerated in calcareous soils, with the help of free-roaming livestock, among others, which spread the seeds through manure.

– It’s like a rainforest in miniature, says project manager Jamie Lloyd.

But golfer Terry Bones is outraged and considers the whole project a hoax:

– Golf courses are also natural, there are foxes on the golf course, he tells SVT’s broadcast.

The issue of deforestation again for the entire EU

The British government has decided that by 2030 30 per cent of the eroded land will be reclaimed and reforested. It is expected to control 12 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Now that deforestation is happening again across the EU, conflicts between farmers and conservationists are expected to intensify. In the United Kingdom, the Farmers’ Welfare Organization has begun to develop mechanisms for how agriculture can interact with natural interests in order to strike a balance between climate and natural activities and food production.

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