Raise Taxes to Save Wildlife, Says Charity ; Farmers' Fury As Rspb Calls On Ministers to Increase Duty On Pesticides to Fund Conservation Farmers' Fury at Rspb's 'Tax On Pesticides' Proposal

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Farmers have reacted with outrage to an RSPB proposal for a tax on pesticides and fertiliser to pay for environmental protection programmes in the face of Government spending cuts.

The wildlife charity has put forward the suggestion among a number of measures to help protect spending in an area which is expected to see significant reductions in next week's Government Spending Review. It believes such a tax could help "reduce negative behaviour" and "unlock private finance" for environmental protection. The report, called Financing Nature in an Age of Austerity, has also suggested conservation credits systems and a greater role for business and communities in protecting Britain's biodiversity.

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Raise Taxes to Save Wildlife, Says Charity ; Farmers' Fury As Rspb Calls On Ministers to Increase Duty On Pesticides to Fund Conservation Farmers' Fury at Rspb's 'Tax On Pesticides' Proposal

Mike Clarke, the RSPB chief executive, said it was "inevitable" that conservation projects would lose public funding as part of the swingeing cuts, which could see the Department for Environment, Food a...

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