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.
Know you consider me cynical Mark and cannot disagree but while sympathetic to people who want to be employed but lose their jobs find it strange that N E has 300 cannot get off the ship fast enough,something funny there can feel it in my bones.