In reply to summo:
> CAP though has been in places many decades, seen umpteen revisions from so called experts and is embodied in all member states policies etc.. It has to bear a fairly large responsibilty too.
Couldn't that depend on any changes made to the landscape through farming, pre CAP, and then on the ability of CAP to make any difference following it?
In a tangentally related way, I'm thinking of the miles of hedgerows which were scrubbed during the 1950's and the enlargement of fields. That's the kind of thing which, even if there were policies relating to the maintaining of existing hedges and incentives to plant new ones, once such a big change has happened, it could be that anything which comes afterwards doesn't quite take things back to how they used to be, as far as improving the landscape for wildlife which lives in hedgerows goes.
One needs to know the details before being critical (or not) is what I'm saying. What parts of CAP don't you think were very positive for Lapwings?
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