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Episode Sources:

The Countryfile Sheep Grazing Tweet Debacle:

• George Monbiot Twitter Response: https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/1348709713387659264
• Ben Goldsmith Twitter Response: https://twitter.com/BenGoldsmith/status/1348703302524030977?s=20

• Wild Lakeland Twitter Response: https://twitter.com/WildLakeland/status/1348762129852207112
• https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/countryfile-bbc-lake-district-sheep-climate-b1786025.html

• https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/2016-02-08/countryfile-beats-war-and-peace-finale-and-call-the-midwife-with-record-tv-audience/
• https://metro.co.uk/2021/01/22/countryfile-hit-with-complaints-over-black-womens-walking-group-segment-13947978/
• https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/countryfile-countryside

UK sheep grazing and agricultural subsidies:

• Fuller, R . J., Gough, S. J. (1999). Changes in sheep numbers in Britain: implications for bird populations. Biological Conservation. Vol. 91(1), pp. 73-89: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320799000397?via=ihub
• Hansen, B. D., Fraser, H. S., Jones, C. S. (2019) Livestock grazing effects on riparian bird breeding behaviour in agricultural landscapes. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Vol. 270–271, pp. 93-102: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880918304390
• Hope, D., Picozzi, N., Catt, D. C., Moss, R. (1996).Effects of Reducing Sheep Grazing in the Scottish Highlands. Journal of Range Management. Vol. 49(4), pp. 301-310.
• Marrs et al. (2020). Release from sheep‐grazing appears to put some heart back into upland vegetation: A comparison of nutritional properties of plant species in long‐term grazing experiments. Annals of Applied Biology. Vol. 177(1), pp. 152-162:
• https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2020/05/11/biodiversity-impact-of-upland-sheep-grazing-will-take-decades-to-recover/
• https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/aab.12591
• Worrall, F. & Clay, G. D. (2012). The impact of sheep grazing on the carbon balance of a peatland. Science of the Total Environment. Vol. 438, pp. 426-434.
• https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54238571
• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-016-0771-z
• https://www.ft.com/content/db2a28e2-c175-11e8-95b1-d36dfef1b89a
• https://www.ft.com/content/81009ae6-b825-49e4-8b95-c68cdf2a69b6
• https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/structure-of-the-agricultural-industry-in-england-and-the-uk-at-june#history
• https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/united-kingdom-embark-agricultural-revolution-break-eu-farm-subsidies
• https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/michael-gove-promises-subsidies-will-stay-for-hill-farmers-k903tjsgr
• https://fullfact.org/economy/farming-subsidies-uk/
• https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/english-sheep-numbers-continue-recovery-12-year-high
• https://www.fwi.co.uk/livestock/beef/sheep-numbers-hit-highest-level-since-2000
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-42371973

The Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC) call for woodland creation in the UK:

• https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/leaflet-responding-to-the-climate-emergency-with-new-trees-and-woodlands

‘The Bracken Problem’ in the UK:

• The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Bracken info page: https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=445
• Marrs, R.H., Le Duc, M. G., Mitchell, R. J., Goddard, D., Paterson, S., Pakeman, R. J. (2000). The Ecology of Bracken: Its Role in Succession and Implications for Control. Annals of Botany. Vol. 85 (B), pp. 3-15: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305736499910545
• Nature Scot. (2008). Bracken Control – A Guide to Best Practice (PDF): https://www.nature.scot/bracken-control-guide-best-practice
• Pakeman, R. J., Marrs, R. H., Howard, D. C., Barr, C. J., Fuller, R. M. (1996). The bracken problem in Great Britain: Its present extent and future changes. Applied Geography, Vol. 16(1), pp. 65-86: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0143622895000267
• https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/4676273.soay-sheep-used-reduce-bracken/
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8301274.stm
• https://www.shropshirelive.com/news/2020/06/08/woolly-friends-keep-conservation-efforts-going-on-shropshire-hillfort-during-coronavirus-lockdown/
  

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