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

Landowners to urge environment secretary to stick with rewilding pledges

Flowers growing in a field in Eton that has been left to rewild this year.
Flowers growing in a field in Eton that has been left to rewild this year. Photograph: Maureen McLean/Rex/Shutterstock

The head of Natural England and the chair of England’s largest landowners’ organisation are to meet the new environment secretary to urge him not to scrap or water down rewilding schemes.

Tony Juniper, who will meet Ranil Jayawardena along with the CLA chair Mark Tufnell on Tuesday, pointed out that swathes of prime land were being used for golf courses, housing and other infrastructure but political focus was on the small amount that would be rewilded.

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