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Dear Sir or Madam,

could you introduce a farm bill that would give incentives to farmers to encourage wildlife onto their farmland and go organic, Farmers involved would plant hedgerows or leave hedgerows to grow, blossom and fruit and maintain wide field margins where wild flowers provide food and egg-laying areas for butterflies. Other initiatives include the introduction of ponds, ditches, beetle banks, skylark scrapes, barn own boxes, wetland, river conservation, over wintered stubble and going organic. this should include all farmers wherever they are situated catering for different wildlife needs

the declining species such as brown hares, yellow hammers and even the humble house sparrow are making a dramatic comeback on participating farms that already help wildlife and this number would dramatically grow with the introduction of this bill

Yours faithfully,

Carl Holmes

Helpline, Defra (CCU), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Dear Mr Holmes,

Thank you for your email of 21 December.

Information on the issues you raised, and how the Government is
encouraging farmers to adopt them, can be found at:
[1]http://www.defra.gov.uk/farm/environment...
[2]http://www.defra.gov.uk/farm/environment...
[3]http://www.defra.gov.uk/farm/organic/
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Yours sincerely,

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