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// NGO CAP SUBMISSIONS CALL FOR ‘PUBLIC GOODS'

As the review date for the submission to the Review of the CAP policy closes, 19 Irish environmental groups have jointly called on the Commission to recognise and provider tools to protect the ‘public goods' - water quality, soil, landscapes, archaeology and biodiversity.

‘Citizens do not expect that biodiversity, soils, and water will be damaged by adverse management practices such as the burning of scrub, removal of field boundaries and inadequate riparian buffer zones which support many native species of flora and fauna', they write.

The removal of scrub by burning is particularly damaging - and voluntary schemes are not sufficient to address these issues which must be incorporated into Area Aid conditions.

Read the (short) submission