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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Helena Horton Environment reporter

Farmers threaten to quit NFU as leader backs scrapping of nature subsidies

Minette Batters.
Minette Batters said she believed private money should be used to pay farmers for wildlife recovery, rather than public funds. Photograph: Fototek/PA

Farmers are threatening to quit the National Farmers’ Union after its leader said she supported the UK government’s apparent move to scrap post-Brexit nature subsidies.

This weekend, the Observer revealed that the government was poised to abandon the “Brexit bonus”, which would have paid farmers and landowners to enhance nature, in what wildlife groups have described as an “all-out attack” on the environment.

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