The Nature of Farming Award is a partnership between the RSPB, Butterfly Conservation and Plantlife which recognises and celebrates the good work done by many (but not all!) UK farmers for nature on their farms.
Past winners have had a Celtic flavour: 2008, Peter Davies, Wales; 2009, Michael Calvert, Northern Ireland and 2010, John and James Davison, Northern Ireland.
Our new media partner is Telegraph newspapers - and we welcome them as we thank Countryfile for their past partnership.
A love of the natural world demonstrates that a person is a cultured inhabitant of planet Earth.
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That's potentially good news. Working with the Daily Telegragh might give the opportunity to encourage them to be a bit more objective and less biased on their countryside reports especially regarding the persecution of birds of prey.
(Also, just to say, re my comments on the arithmetic of the HLs precentage, was not to detract in anyway from the really brilliant effort by the RSPB in persuading DEFRA to maintain and indeed increase HLS, as well as credit to DEFRA themselves).
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