Natural England has been seeking 400 voluntary redundancies and early retirements amongst its staff - and has had, in round terms, about 300 offers. So it is looking for another 100 non-voluntary job cuts.
This is from a staff of about 2400. And the next few years will see another 400 jobs go - the consequences of c30% cuts in money from government.
No-one has suggested chopping down 30% of England's forests - it's just not on the cards.
Are the cuts at NE just dead wood? - I don't think so, and anyway, dead wood is valuable ecologically.
A love of the natural world demonstrates that a person is a cultured inhabitant of planet Earth.
Its difficult to comment on loss of jobs but BBCS who's land is it anyway campaign seems to imply there is still tine to influence our political masters. It might be an idea to get across how valuable access to forestry commission land is to birders.
DC