Call Jho (pronounced Joe). Any pronouns are ok!

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Cake day: October 13th, 2023
  • Jho@feddit.uktoUK Nature and Environment@feddit.uk•Billionaires Who Rewild the UK Are Set to Get an Inheritance Tax BreakEnglish
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    7 months ago

    My cynical ass cannot stop my eyes rolling into the back of my head when I see “tax breaks for billionaires”. But I’ll try to put that entire ugly can of worms to the side for now.

    Ultimately the devil will be in the details as to how this is implemented, and unfortunately at this stage it seems there’s not a whole lot of information as to exactly this will work. From the article: “There’s still uncertainty around how the government will approve eligibility for the projects. […] adding more guidance is due to be provided in the near future.”

    I’ve got so many questions. Like, how much of the land has to be rewilded? Will this land be regularly monitored and checked? How are we going to decide whether or not a plot of land has been sufficiently rewilded? Can the landowner do any sort of rewilding even if it’s unsuitable for the surrounding area and it’s needs? Is there anything to stop someone from simply creating a monoculture conifer forest, which doesn’t provide a great benefit for wildlife?

    Are there any measures in place to stop land owners from demolishing these rewilded areas after it no longer becomes profitable to keep them that way? Can someone just create a monoculture conifer forest and then cut it down for timber once the inheretance has gone through on the land? Is there going to be a cap on the tax break itself? If the tax break ends up saving more money than the cost of rewilding an area and then demolishing it afterwards then this is just going to be another way for billionaires to dodge taxes whilst contributing nothing to the UK.

    I’m skeptical to say the least.

  • Jho@feddit.uktoUK Nature and Environment@feddit.uk•Tory MP Calls For More Wild Animals To Be KilledEnglish
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    7 months ago

    The headline leads one to believe he’s an indiscriminate animal killing monster.

    He is being indiscriminate. He literally said that “all wild animals have to be culled”. There are tens of thousands of species in the UK. There are maybe only a handful of these species where you could possibly argue that culling is required (when ignoring viable alternative solutions).

    Now I have zero idea what that looks like in the UK.

    It concerns me greatly how easily you trust Drax and how confidently you speak regarding this topic despite knowing nothing about what healthy populations of wildlife in the UK look like.

    Drax owns thousands of acres of farmland, he has a vested interest in protecting livestock over wildlife. That alone should make all of us skeptical about anything he says.

    He’s calling for culling to create healthy populations.

    The primary reason we’re culling badgers is because of the issues they cause to the owners of livestock. It’s nothing to do with creating a healthy population of badgers.

    Drax says that deer need to be culled because otherwise the health of deer will deteriorate. That’s nonesense. Deer are culled because they destroy vegetataion, especially young sapling trees, which is only a problem because we have systematically elimiated all large land predators in the UK over the course of hundreds of years (e.g. wolves, lynx, bears).

    If it was about creating healthy populations of wildlife then it would be much more effective to reintroduce these large land predators back into the UK instead of culling. But it’s never been about creating healthy populations of wildlife, it’s about making as much money possible through farming. Therefore reintroducing large land predators is absolutely not an option for livestock owners because large land predators will also prey on livestock.

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