If you @DefraGovUK granted you £120,000 to spend on improving habitat for wildlife in farmland you could, for that sum, provide 187 hectares of Winter bird cover (AB9). Providing valuable winter seed and cover for birds and summertime food for pollinators.
If you decided to spend that £120,000 of tax payers money on Supplementary feed instead you could buy 189 tonnes of seed, providing important food resources for farmland birds during the "hungry gap"
Or that £120,000 could go towards 218 hectares of autumn sown Bumblebird mix providing six flowering and six seed bearing plants meaning a year round food and habitat source for birds, small mammals, invertebrates and pollinators.
£120,000 of @DefraGovUK grant could fund 229 hectares of lapwing plots (AB5) providing safe nesting sites for lapwing, stone curlew and skylark within an arable landscape.
How about spending £120,000 on 9.37 km of laid hedge, boosting the biodiversity of these arteries of the land or constructing 209 hectares of beetle banks
Sadly rather than funding such projects with this money, Defra was forced to spend £120,000 in legal fees and human resource costs instead, fighting a case against a company called @WildJustice_org , a case that the judge summarily threw out.
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