The BBC report that Julian Glover is being set to do a review of national parks by Michael Gove. This strikes me as the wrong question being answered by the wrong person.
Mr Glover is an established Tory cheer leader in the press. He has no other obvious qualifications for being in charge of a review on this subject. It looks like another example of Tory cronyism by Michael Gove. Of course, Mr Gove does not believe in trusting experts and has successfully led us into the Brexit quagmire as a result.
Secondly, national parks are isolated areas of countryside that have historically been protected. If we want to protect biodiversity we need to think not just in terms of specific small areas, but of the whole island and what connects each area. We also need to think about how climate change is affecting habitats and weather patterns, but that is a complex subject for which Mr Glover seems to have no obvious qualifications.
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