Transcript Environmental issues from Kenneth Grant, Chairman of Herts and

Environmental Issues
Kenneth Grant
Chairman of Herts and Middlesex
Country Land and Business
Association
Country Land and Business
Association
• membership organisation for owners of
land, property and business in rural
England and Wales
• dedicated to defending landowners
interests
• independent and authoritative source of
advice
Hertfordshire
• Approximately two-thirds of the county is
rural in nature, the majority for arable
farming
• Chalk rivers
• 43 Sites of Special Scientific Interest
• The Chilterns
Looking to the future
•
•
•
•
climate change
water resources
changing flora and fauna
landscape changes
Climate change
• an increasing chance of warmer winters,
with fewer colder ones
• an increasing chance of dry summers, but
only a modest reduction in the chance of
very wet summers
Water resources
Changing flora and fauna
Picture of the pasqueflower (Pulsatilla
vulgaris) the County Flower of
Hertfordshire
Landscape changes
Opportunities