03/09/19 Land ownership, Scottish forestry, invasive oysters

One of the country's biggest farming enterprises, Strutt and Parker Farms, has just changed hands for a reported £200 million pounds.
It's been sold to a new private company backed by European investors put together by Belport, a company specialising in the acquisition and management of farms and estate.
In Scotland, rather than hill land being sold for grazing sheep there's a growing trend for upland areas to be bought for tree planting. That's largely due to attractive grants and the Scottish Government's ambitious woodland targets.
Kent Wildlife Trust has started a control programme of invasive Pacific oysters at selected sites across north Kent.

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