Taxing deer and grouse estates for failing to ensure their land properly locks up carbon dioxide could play a crucial role in fighting the climate crisis, a leading conservation group has said.
The John Muir Trust, a charity set up to protect wild places in Britain, says such a plan could help to absorb millions of tonnes of carbon every year, and help the UK – in particular Scotland – achieve its goal of reaching net zero emissions as soon as possible.
The trust argues that many grouse and deer estates are run in ways that minimises the carbon dioxide the land could absorb. In the case of deer estates, stags and hinds eat shoots that would otherwise grow into carbon-absorbing plants and trees. Other landowners have farmed intensively,
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