More than wildlife is under threat by cuts | Letters

Your report (Farming rethink demanded as wildlife suffers, 27 August), mentioning the fact that the “amount of time given by conservation volunteers has fallen”, reveals a hidden effect of austerity hurting people as much as the planet. In the first round of austerity cuts one nearby local authority reduced its grants to environmental bodies. For my learning-disabled son the budget cut meant the conservation volunteers’ organisation could no longer offer the free pick-up servic