![]() ![]() ![]() comes to terms with the June vote to leave the E.U. But the future of this funding is now uncertain, as the U.K. They also clear land with controlled forest fires and cut the bracken and gorse.Ĭonserving the Forest that way costs money, and that money is provided entirely by European Union funding as heathland (which is rarer than tropical rain forest on a global scale) is one of the organization’s priority habitats to protect. Get your history fix in one place: sign up for the weekly TIME History newsletterīecause the rate of grazing has so declined, the officials who manage the land employ a herd of cattle, Exmoor ponies and sheep to help out. “Without people cutting and grazing on the land, all the lovely open landscapes Milne was familiar with would quickly disappear and become woodland,” said Steve Alton, a Conservation Officer based at the Ashdown Forest Center. ![]()
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