Locking up? Not sure that’s the correct word to use. It’s still being managed.

This is a poor announcement. You can get landscape outcomes without using emotive language like ‘locking up’ that is very different to changing management practice and actively managing for multiple benefits or even varying land use. #activemanagementworks

Nonsensical statement. 'Locking up' is emotive and irrelevant to farm and rural land management. Look at important land use management research! Protecting farmland, peri-urban areas and infrastructure requires protection of natural resource features.

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Wow. That's a really well-thought-out header...not.

"Locking UP" "Farmers" "conservationists" Who? How? What benefits?Very poor attempt at what could have been a positive article, that reads as nothing more than an opinion peace with no names or references to fact.

A better title Protecting and enhancing nature

Many farmers already have ~5% or more of their land set aside for revegetation. Yet they get bugger all support for doing this. I've a 16ha reveg stream frontage project on my rear boundary. Next door they've signed a "trust for nature" . No grazing allowed! Fire risk anyone?

We might have a permanent emergency/fire fighting / reveg (& manage) service to assist landholders if we-the-taxpayer so chose to push for it Of greater use (& employment) than Spaaaaaace Fooooorce 🙄 Oh, and we might stop logging public land too!

Why be precise in your language when there’s clicks to harvest, hey?