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JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION
Volume 15, Issue 1-2, Pages 129-137Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10841-010-9332-0
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Common Agricultural Policy; Grassland; Butterflies; Land-use change; Abandonment; Europe; Traditional management
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In this paper we describe the impact of the abandonment of traditional farming practices on butterflies and their habitats in traditional, often montane, pastoral systems. We link these declines to socioeconomic factors: illustrating how the failure of the CAP to support traditional farming leads to structural changes in farming enterprises-features which may be obscured by crude statistics on stock. We then call for the scheduled CAP reforms in 2013 to be radically realigned to support rather than destroy biodiversity so that any new EU agri-biodiversity commitments have an effective funding stream to support them.
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