BBC Countryfile Magazine

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A SENSE OF OWNERSHIP

In November’s issue there was an interesting juxtaposition of John Craven’s complaint about litter and Nick Hayes’ excellent article on countryside access. This led me to wonder whether, disagreeing with John Craven, we drop so much litter because we don’t have enough sense of ownership of the land. Perhaps if more areas were easy to enter and people were given more sense of ownership we might take more care of it.

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