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United Kingdom: Wildlife groups criticise green farm subsidy move
2013-12-20 05:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Wildlife groups have accused the government of caving in to big farmers over planned changes to farm subsidies in England. The government proposed increasing the proportion of farm payments transferred to protecting wildlife from 9% to 15%. But it backed it down to 12% after farmers said this was not fair. The government said it would be spending a bigger share on the environment despite a smaller overall budget for subsidies. Farmers get 50bn of taxpayers' money a year based mainly...
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