Let’s go for rewilding, it’s a win-win situation

THE announcement that a small area of mid Wales is to be returned to a more natural state (rewilding, readdress, put back what has been lost). There are many words that can be used.

This is great news for Wales, great news for the people and great news for biodiversity and great news for the communities that are in that area.

A recent statement from the farming unions who are completely against it is typical and unfounded, no farmers will lose their farms, it isn’t a threat to the Welsh language. How is putting back what has been lost a threat to the language? The language faces many threats: media saturation, apathy, and immigration are just a few, but rewilding? I don’t think so.

There are parts of Wales, south, mid and north that could be returned to a dynamic eco system without threatening anyone, no farmers, villages or towns.

There are parts of upland Wales that look and are basically deserts, just grassy hills with a few blocks of forestry here and there, no bird life, no insects, no mammals, nothing.

I hope to one day be able to travel to Snowdonia (Eryri, land of the eagle) to see golden eagles that have colonised or have been reintroduced. Why should I have to travel to Scotland to see them and spend my money there when I could be spending it in Wales and contributing to the local economy?

Come on, farmers, play your part and contribute, work for the common goal in a win-win situation. Robert M Price Blackwood