jimbob wrote: ↑Fri Feb 11, 2022 2:42 pm
plodder wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 9:10 am
Broadly related is the fact that these habitats are owned by a handful of people / organisations (so should be pretty easy to target if the political will ever got there).
Significant carbon / wider habitat concerns too.
https://whoownsengland.org/2021/11/15/w ... ur-carbon/
And this which I've just searched for in response to someone on Twitter saying that maybe we shouldn't reintroduce birds of prey if they keep dying... (on grouse moors in suspicious circumstances according to the story to which he was replying)
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/stud ... -published
Red Kites, for instance, have been successfully reintroduced everywhere in the UK... Except where there are shooting estates. And attempts to understand the population trajectories simply don't make sense without including persecution.
Everyone knows it's happening, but even when gamekeepers are filmed shooting harriers at the nest they can get away with it. Historically the RSPB have been very unwilling to risk the political backlash from going up against teh rUrAl eCoNoMy (even though shooting employs basically nobody).
Turns out the handful of people who own the bl..dy places are extremely well connected, so can run organised crime gangs with impunity (see also the widespread continuation of foxhunting under the figleaf of "trail hunting").
Rewild the f.cking lot, leave the raptors alone, and I'd even be happy for folk to go out and kill grouse - they'd just have to learn to shoot first, like grouse hunters in the rest of North Europe and North America do. Driven shooting is just Victorian nonsense for talentless toff c.nts.
We have the right to a clean, healthy, sustainable environment.