Plenty of farmers are retiring land, doing riparian planting, conserving tracts of native bush etc at their expense. Not necessarily to provide gamebird habitat but to protect waterways etc. The agricultural sector may well be making a profit off their land but how else is the burgeoning human population to be fed? Urban sprawl and the pollution that goes with it is as much if not more to blame for reductions in gamebird populations. Sub divisions and lifestyle blocks have chewed into what was once a rich gamebird area around our district for example.
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