Commons Bill [HL]

I am asking the question, rather than saying anything. There is clearly an interaction between sheep and other animals grazing and people like me walking on uplands. There is clearly an interaction, which is what the CROW Act is about. Landowners and people grazing animals clearly have rights and responsibilities in relation to that. I am merely asking whether the commons association, as a collective body, ought to be involved. I am not saying that individual commoners should have responsibility necessarily, but that the commons association should. I think that that is the real world. I welcome the amendment moved by my noble friend Lady Miller of Chilthorne Domer. I, too, want to raise the issue of wildlife on the common. There are two sides to that, including the obvious problem of rabbits in many places. The noble Earl, Lord Peel, might refer to foxes and other animals—I do not know. But the management of wildlife on the common is required in order to prevent that wildlife becoming a nuisance. In some places, there might be the promotion of wildlife on the common; for example, as a tourist facility or for conservation reasons. All sorts of animals that used to exist in this country, such as, beavers, even wolves—some people question that—wild boar and all sorts of animals, and birds, are being re-introduced. Surely, that is part of the management of the common, in addition to the management of vegetation. As my noble friend suggested, should not the wording reflect that?