Jobs • Countryside • Sport: find out more about the Countryside Rally in London in June from one of the organisers. It will start at Speakers Corner, Hyde Park, London W2 2EU at 11am on 29 June, and then march to Westminster.
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The UK countryside is beautiful. That's no accident. Leave the people who live in it to keep looking after it, as we have for thousands of years. That's the message coming out of a group organising a rally in London in June.
Following the recent general licences debacle by Natural England, they feel like they are being booted out of their own fields and forests, disenfranchised, that city people want to take management of the countryside away from the people who live there. In an age of consensus, they see an animal rights activist elite imposing their ideas, worked up in Islington and Notting Hill restaurants, on a living, breathing landscape that's already well tended by country people. Whether it's banning pest control or hunting, forcing 'rewilding', or villifying and criminalising farmers, gamekeepers and hunt staff, there's a widening gap between what works for the countryside and what sounds like a good idea in The Guardian. Keep your quangos and your factfinding trips if you want to, but trust us to look after the UK's countryside for you.
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