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Nature friendly farming projects in the Exmoor National Park have had funding extended as part of Defra's Farming in Protected Landscapes programme.

  Alex Farris knows he’s fortunate to be alive.29-Year-old Farris of Eagleville almost died in January 2021 when he overdosed on fentanyl. Farris was homeless with “no money, no nothing” when he used drugs he believed was methamphetamine.“It wasn’t meth,” Farris said. “It was pure fentanyl. (He was told) I did enough to kill several people.”The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration reports fentanyl is 80-100 times stronger than morphine. Two m ...

A major Garganey influx and returning spring migrants made for an enjoyable month of birding.

A DEFRA-FUNDED trial on 26 Exmoor farms and smallholdings in West Somerset has helped provide evidence to the UK government on the true cost of delivering public goods in a National Park alongside a viable farm business. Working with the Exmoor Hill Farming Network (EHFN) and environmental consultancy firm Rural Focus, Exmoor National Park Authority was commissioned by Defra (the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs) to test principles for mapping the delivery of public goods on individual farms, to help identify key areas for investment and collaboration. It is hoped the fi...

Higher payment rates and the assistance of skilled advisers will be required to make the upcoming Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme successful,