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  1. Jos Stratford

    Wildlife protection laws under threat in the UK

    I hope I am wrong, but I fear that over the medium to long term, the EU27 is going to swing to a slightly less pleasant version of the EU that exists today, not necessarily in environmental areas, but more in general. There is a significant block of countries - think Poland, Hungary, Slovakia...
  2. Jos Stratford

    Wildlife protection laws under threat in the UK

    Hopefully it will not contain any nasty surprises. Ha ha ha, if Britain leaves with no deal and relations really go bad with mutual expulsion of citizens, the nastiest surprise of all could be the reappearance of Jos in the UK. Gee, poor UK, you really don't deserve that ;)
  3. Jos Stratford

    Wildlife protection laws under threat in the UK

    And those wearing the rose-tinted EU specs, please bear in mind that the number one threat facing harriers here in eastern EU is not illegal persecution by gamekeepers or others (this is pretty much non-existent here), but EU-funded projects that compel farmers to cut grass exactly when the...
  4. Jos Stratford

    Wildlife protection laws under threat in the UK

    So Peter, if I understand, you disagree with what I set out. Which bit was wrong? Hen Harriers aren't being persecuted to the point of extinction on English moors despite EU legislation? The poor state of affairs regarding aspects of UK raptor protection is down to the failure of the UK...
  5. Jos Stratford

    Wildlife protection laws under threat in the UK

    Given the state of raptors on English moors today, in a situation where the UK has been a member of the EU for 40 years, clearly the EU is not proving effective in offering protection (as is also the case in several other EU countries). It is twaddle to try and blame Brexit for raptor...
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