National Trust – No more ‘re-wilding’!


Resolution for National Trust Annual General Meeting 2022
Re-wilding of National Trust Land
‘Be it resolved that this AGM deplores re-wilding or re-wetting of National Trust farmland, or acquisition of farmland for that purpose, especially at this time of food insecurity, and calls on the Trust to re-dedicate its farmland to farming.’
Supporting Statement:
‘There have been too many reports of the Trust buying farmland and promptly re-wilding it, or separating a farmhouse from its land and ‘wilding’ the land. At the 2021 AGM a Trust officer boasted of a re-wetting project. Even then the United Kingdom was said to be importing around half our food. Yet food imported from abroad and processed here, such as tea, counts as ‘UK food’. When that is taken into account, the UK is only some 20-25% food secure. The Russo-Ukraine war on top of the pandemic shipping crisis must serve as a warning about food insecurity and drive us to grow and raise as much of our own food as we can. Re-wilding and re-wetting may be fashionable environmental fads, but they are surely irresponsible. The National Trust should again encourage farming on its farm land.’
Any and every member of the National Trust who has been a member since January 2021 can and should sign the resolution. Download the pdf here: ResolutionsNT22A . Then print it off, sign it, print your name, address and postcode and your National Trust membership number. Then send it to: Christian Voice, Wernlwyd, Pen-y-bont, CARMARTHEN, SA33 6QN, by 25th May 2022. Or scan it and email it to info@ukcv.org We have a NT deadline to meet! Thank you!
Parallel Resolution
The Resolution comes with a parallel Resolution calling for the National Trust to stop participating in Gay Pride events. You can sign both or either. (The PDF above has the Re-wilding Resolution at the top instead of the Gay Pride one, as on the ‘No more Gay Pride’ post .)
The Trust was criticised in the press in 2016 HERE, HERE and HERE for buying up Thorneythwaite sheep farm in the Lake District in order to ‘rewild’ it. Elsewhere, according to Farmers Weekly the Trust’s tenant farmers have complained the Trust is putting what it thinks is ‘the environment’ above food production. It was Mike Innerdale, the Trust’s regional director for the north, who gave the presentation to the 2021 AGM in which he spoke of ‘wetting-up our farmland’ and a ‘drive to net zero’.
Previous articles on the National Trust:
National Trust: No more Gay Pride!
National Trust AGM 2021: So close! (01/11/2021)
National Trust Candidates miss the PC point (13/10/2017)
‘Hurtful’ National Trust in Rainbow Row (07/08/2017)
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