NT rewilding

SIR – Your report (“National Trust’s rewilding plans push farmers out”, August 1) fails to acknowledge how we strive to work with our tenants to help them create and run sustainable businesses that produce great food.

We are driven by our ambition, as a conservation charity, to respond to the nature and climate crises that Britain faces. We want to help tenants access new government payment schemes to make farming more environmentally friendly, and to improve habitats with measures such as planting trees.

We live on a small island with a large population, so we need to manage land in ways that deliver multiple benefits: locking up carbon, helping nature to recover, protecting communities from flooding, and enabling people to access the countryside and cherish our environment, as well as supporting nature-friendly food farming.

Harry Bowell

Director of Land and Nature National Trust

Swindon, Wiltshire