Your piece (Conservationists call for Lake District to lose UNESCO World Heritage Status, 7 June) Cited campaigns that criticize sheep’s farming in the most respected British area. The Lake District is a national park, with protected and designated scientific special interest sites.
The fact that sheep and hefted lifstock grazing is core to handle it for more than 3,000 years suggests it does something worth a value. What ironic is instead of celebrating (and added goodness) in these farmers and grazers, and the roaring rural infrastructure that wants to see the death of first farming.
Given the correct policy outline and the public prepared to support local food producers, the farmers of the Lake District, and an enthusiastic society, and an enthusiastic society, and an enthusiastic heritage of culture and one you contribute to food security. That is certainly what needs to be careful – an acknowledgment of the whole, and not only results.
In the end, while businesses in the field of sheep in violent regions can be in financial regions, if they are considered within an economy, moving jobs, to support jobs and supporting jobs, then they are not poor performers.
Public support helps farmers to do more for nature and water protection and other resources. Farmers want to continue to take care of the land they have targeted for centuries, securing public access, balancing nature for a good way for future generations.
Phil Stecocker
Chief executive, National Carter Association
