Agenda 21 – Eurocrats forced couple off farm they wanted to give to their sons – so it could be flooded for wildfowl: Landowner says EU put...

‘Having lovingly worked the land on their farm for more than 30 years, Kenneth Hicks was looking forward to passing the estate to his sons when the time came for him to retire.

But the former Army officer told last night how that dream has been shattered after he was forced from his home by EU laws that put the ‘rights of birds above humans’.

Mr Hicks, 79, said he and his wife Deidre, 78, had to leave their farm of 30 years with ‘a gun to their heads’ because of European regulations that allow the RSPB to flood the land to encourage breeding of endangered birds.

He said they were ‘devastated’ at having to leave 60-acre Harbour Farm in Bembridge, on the Isle of Wight, and being denied the chance to pass it on to their three sons.’

Read more: Agenda 21 – Eurocrats forced couple off farm they wanted to give to their sons – so it could be flooded for wildfowl: Landowner says EU put ‘rights of birds above humans’