.@PhilHoganEU says excluding ANCs from 30% env ringfencing means freeing up money for real delivery. Can totally agree with this one. One of few genuine improvements proposed. #futureofCAP

A total of 164 written submissions were received by the Irish CAP consultation, 16% of which were from vegans farmersjournal.ie/27-responses-f…

OMG #FutureofCAP introduces coupled payments for #biofuels which are banned under EU state aid. #EUbioenergy gone mad. Green claims even more fake than we expected.

For a point-by-point policy break down of today's #FutureofCAP legislative proposals - check out our preliminary environmental analysis report tinyurl.com/y6w6z4bm #NatureAlert Günther H. Oettinger Jean-Claude Juncker Karmenu Vella Daniel Calleja @PhilHoganEU

Birdlife's Trees Robijns and Ariel Brunner🇺🇦 #Xdissenter pass judgement on Commission's CAP legislative proposals yesterday - another decade of biodiversity decline? capreform.eu/commission-pro…

Anyone interested in farmland biodiversity & the current CAP proposals should read this to understand how badly the proposals fail nature in Europe. The fight isn’t over tho. With European elections coming up citizens have an opportunity to turn the CAP ship & save our nature. x.com/xalan_matthews…

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Shocking testimony on #FutureofCAP from Kazakova: local Natura2000 farmers say they would prefer to get no subsidies if intensive farmers also didn't get anything. Would at least allow them to compete fairly....

Finally some good new on #FutureofCAP New well targeted agri-environment packages in Ireland sound like they could make a difference. Big bottle necks R lack of appropriate advice to farmers & insufficient monitoring

Nice example of why we need targeting, advisory & scientific monitoring. Ireland has paid for over 200.000 nest boxes, targeting non threatened species, most of them probably never used by any birds. #FutureofCAP

Good question from BirdWatch Ireland Alex Copland: why would farmers have absolute reliability for direct payments but have environmental schemes come and go, get interrupted etc? We need to build the trust of farmers in env measures.

Good question from BirdWatch Ireland Alex Copland: CAP has not worked for nature, farmers, society. Without change we'll not only use nature, we'll also keep losing rural communities. #FutureofCAP

.Alex Copland of BirdWatch Ireland on reforming rural development "we will of course make mistakes, but we can't let fear of making mistakes stop us from making progress" - especially when we know most #CAP money currently being wasted on mistake of direct payments! #FutureofCAP

.@SebastianLakner makes obvious point that coupled support inevitably means each sector interferes with politicians to try and get the money, making the lobby game worse and degrading governance. #FutureofCAP

Lunch break preparing for a hot(!) discussion about the #FutureOfCAP . BirdLife Europe & Central Asia

Dipper feeding fledgelings. I weighed one of the rocks the female was turning over with her bill: 250g. Adult female Irish Dippers weigh between 55 and 65g... Filmed under licence @npwsBioData #Cinclus #Ornithology John O'Halloran @uccBEES barry o'mahony Alex Copland BirdWatch Ireland Mooney Goes Wild

The big switch to performance-based farming targets writes Alan Matthews [email protected] buff.ly/2JH1nlZ

Our biggest fans this week: Baiba. Thank you! via sumall.com/thankyou?utm_s…

This is #Madness #GIAF

Man convicted and fined for chopping down hedges during bird nesting season (via TheJournal.ie) jrnl.ie/4688893