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Podcast: Conservation and Science
Episode: 183: Nature Restoration Law - an Irish Farmer’s Perspective with Bill O’Keeffe
Description: Why was the farming community so opposed to the EU’s Nature Restoration Law? Doesn’t a healthy ecosystem benefit agriculture? Isn’t the availability of additional payments for alternative use of unproductive land a good thing? Aren’t the measures built into the law sufficient to protect the actively used agricultural land? To find answers to those and other questions related to farming and biodiversity I sat down (in his kitchen) with Bill O’Keeffe a dairy farmer from Co. Kilkenny.In case you are wondering, Bill is involved with the Irish Farmers’ Association but he spoke with m...