{"id":7219,"date":"2018-04-05T07:31:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T07:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7219"},"modified":"2018-04-05T07:31:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T07:31:18","slug":"re-wilder-dreams-take-a-knock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2018\/04\/05\/re-wilder-dreams-take-a-knock\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-wilder dreams take a knock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Prince of Wales' website has a feature on HRH's March 26th trip to unveil a plaque on the shore of Derwentwater marking the [newish] UNESCO cultural world heritage site \u2013 the Lake District. \u00a0Details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.princeofwales.gov.uk\/prince-wales-unveils-lake-district-unesco-world-heritage-site\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It includes this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"There are three themes that underpin the Lake District World Heritage Site as a cultural landscape of international significance. These are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>identity - the dramatic farmed landscape;<\/li>\n<li>inspiration - art, literature and love of the place;<\/li>\n<li>conservation - people fought for and continue to look after this special corner of England.\"<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sheep 1 \u2013 Re-wilders (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2018\/04\/04\/the-missing-swindale-sheep\/\">RSPB<\/a>) 0<\/p>\n<p>To rub the message home, HRH then visited the National Centre for the Uplands at Newton Rigg College in Penrith. \u00a0This is, we're told, a \"a state-of-the-art sheep husbandry centre that is helping to safeguard the future of hill farming across the country\".<\/p>\n<p>Sheep and Farmers 2 \u2013 Re-wilders (RSPB, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/may\/09\/lake-district-world-heritage-site-george-monbiot\">Monbiot<\/a>) 0<\/p>\n<p>After an obligatory trip on an Ullswater steamer, HRH's day finished with a visit to a Kendal paper manufacturer that turns takeaway coffee-cups into paper and packaging. \u00a0Here, he\u00a0joined a roundtable discussion\u00a0with business leaders and stakeholders associated with the industry. \u00a0Was the RSPB invited to any of this, I wonder?<\/p>\n<p>For a more balanced take on the issues, see <a href=\"https:\/\/grevel.co.uk\/andanotherthing\/lake-district-unesco-world-heritage-site\/\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prince of Wales' website has a feature on HRH's March 26th trip to unveil a plaque on the shore of Derwentwater marking the [newish] UNESCO cultural world heritage site \u2013 the Lake District. \u00a0Details here. It includes this: \"There...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}