Sheep are disappearing from the UK’s hills – and its dinner plates
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For example the government’s Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme, which was updated last month, includes further incentives for farmers to graze moorland with cattle and ponies instead of sheep as it “contributes positively to biodiversity”. Cattle, for example, do not graze as low to the ground as sheep, allowing smaller plants to flower.
