Tax-break forestry schemes threaten biodiversity as wealthy investors target UK woodlands
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Lauren Almeida
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The article investigates how wealthy investors are exploiting tax loopholes by converting natural habitats like the Todrig site on the English-Scottish border into commercial woodlands, threatening biodiversity. The northern brown argus butterfly and local community councils have temporarily blocked one such plan, highlighting the conflict between tax-avoidance forestry schemes and environmental conservation. The piece exposes how Britain's inheritance tax rules incentivize the destruction of ecologically rich landscapes for financial gain.
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Todrig, with its heath moorlands and hundreds of species of flora and fauna, represents an investment that could save Britain's wealthiest families millions of pounds in inheritance tax.
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