Bird pulled from brink of extinction facing poisoning threat (1 Viewer)

The BASC bloke is typically disingenuous: he says conservation funds shouldn't be focused on the item of least importance, but they don't have to be: the modern principle is "the polluter pays" and whether one is talking about poison baits on shooting estates or lead shot in the environment that principle must apply, so conservation funds are not needed: the estates and the shooters are clearly liable for the policing and clean-up costs: I would want to argue that they are also liable for the restitution costs i.e. the cost of producing sufficient animals additional to normal wild production to replace those lost and reintroducing them to the wild.

John