Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Burren Farming for Conservation Programme: Discussion

3:25 pm

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If there was land abandonment in the Burren - in other words, if farming became impossible with likely cutbacks in REPS and so on - what would it do to the ecology? Dr. Parr keeps stressing that this is a farmed landscape and that none of it is wild. I accept that there is not any wild landscape there and that is true of most landscapes in Ireland. However, what would land abandonment do, if people decided that it was not economic to farm there any more? If all the farming was done in areas of good land, what would it do to the ecology?

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