Lost species to be released as Labour seeks to stave off Greens’ election threat (www.theguardian.com)

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White-tailed eagles, pine martens and beavers will be released across England before the May elections as the Labour government attempts to staunch the flow of nature-loving voters to the Green party.

Plans to reintroduce these lost species to the country have been mooted for years, but the previous Conservative government failed to get them over the line after opposition from landowners and its own MPs.

Emma Reynolds, the environment secretary, is understood to have told the regulator Natural England to dust off these plans and expedite them so there is a flood of good nature news before the polls open.

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[-] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago

Not going to attract any green voters any more than shouting about immigrants will attract reform voters.

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