John Burn-Murdoch

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196 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 17 Aug

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Radical · Britain's Lost Species: Should We Resurrect Our Extinct Wildlife? (Derek Gow) · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

Their Vice President Robin Munt has sent the following statement on farming in general, saying that farmers already manage 6.1 million hectares through agri-environment schemes and support multifunctional land use, but environmental delivery must sit alongside food production and taking

Large areas of productive land out of farming will not strengthen UK food security or help feed a population of

exactly are the changes you would like to see uh with farming in the UK, for example?

Adding the details of how

If I just come on there on on water and wetlands.

So as I understand it, what you're saying, this is about water management.

It's about flood mitigation.

Yeah.

And this is maybe a good point for us to go in on beavers as well.

Because presumably when we're talking about water management systems in a way that is truly in harmony with nature, we're talking about beavers.

Is is there are there other aspects to this or is that what

Dealing as we record this with an extensive record breaking drought in the UK.

We've had notable floods in Europe recently, such as the recent one in Valencia.

Would these major events have been prevented if we had beavers roaming and and swimming around?

Or are we talking about a more marginal impact here?

Something that is nonetheless something we should do, but is maybe not necessarily going to have

Have these dramatic big um impacts that we might need given what's been happening to the climate.

I hope you're enjoying my conversation with Derek Gao.

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