11. We’re paying twice for this madness. There would be no sheep on the moor if it were not for lavish subsidies, as they are highly unproductive and loss-making. Our taxes pay both for the ecological destruction and for the feeble remedy. Round and round the money goes. Pop goes the ecosystem.

And re-wet the vast areas of peat that cover the high moor, which have been badly degraded by drainage, swaling & overgrazing - and become dominated by fire-prone molinia (purple moor grass) as a result

‘Make Dartmoor Wet Again’