Ulster Farmers’ Union deputy president Glenn Cuddy said his organisation was “still a bit skeptical” about the strategy.<\/p>\n
“There’s always a concern that nature will be more thought of than the farming and farmers have been walking along with nature for a long time, even before some of these projects have started,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We have always been the guardians of the countryside and for nature too.”<\/p>\n
Heather McLachlan, the National Trust’s Northern Ireland director, said: “What really needs to happen is that we need to see where are the priorities.<\/p>\n
“How do we get this action going, who’s going to do it and most importantly where’s the money going to come from to get it done?”<\/p>\n
Joanne Sherwood, the director of The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Ireland said: “Species are really in decline so what it means for us is this charts out the strategy and the way forward.<\/p>\n
“But of course a strategy isn’t everything – we need now to act and take urgent action.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ulster Farmers’ Union deputy president Glenn Cuddy said his organisation was “still a bit skeptical” about the strategy.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-815877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}