Claims that the British countryside is racist and colonial have been blasted as nonsense.
Wildlife and Countryside Link accused of attention-seeking
The allegation that the great outdoors is a white space where ethnic minorities do not feel welcome was levelled in a report to MPs.
The report came from Wildlife and Countryside Link, an organization representing 80 groups, including the National Trust, in response to a call for evidence of links between racism and climate change.
But Tim Bonner, the head of the Countryside Alliance, fired back, calling the claims "ridiculous" and "attention-seeking nonsense."
Welcoming rural communities
Bonner stated, "It's ridiculous to say people in the countryside are racist, and this is just attention-seeking nonsense. Rural people are happy to go out of their way to make people from rural minorities who don't have experience of the countryside welcome."
Report sent to All-Party Parliamentary Group for Race and Community
The Wildlife and Countryside Link report was sent to the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Race and Community, which is chaired by Labour MP Clive Lewis.
The report claimed that "racist colonial legacies continue to frame nature in the UK as a 'white space' and people of colour as 'out of place'."
Similar claims made by University of Leicester and BBC's Countryfile
The University of Leicester and BBC's Countryfile have also made similar claims in the past.
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