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RSPB stunned by Defra plan to 'imprison' buzzards (RSPB) (1 Viewer)

Time for the RSPB, BTO et al, to step up to the plate & make some real noise, petitions very rarely change the mind of the Government.
 
No surprises here - men with guns seeking sport and profit want countryside to themselves without competing predators. That's the reason we have no breeding Hen Harriers isn't it?

DEFRA - they want to control alien species that impact native species and one hand and on the other hand, remove a natural species to protect an introduced species on the other.

So my question to the RSPB is what would you like your considerable membership to do/say about this and to whom?
 
Good to see that the BBC have picked this up, but it would be better still if the media went with the angle of taxpayers' money being pumped into the businesses of those who profit from shooting Pheasants. I was going to say 'being used to prop up the unsustainable business practices of Pheasant shoots', but there's no real evidence (as opposed to anecdotal from gamekeepers) that Buzzards cause significant losses to shoots. It's far more to do with the Victorian 'hookbills bad' attitude that still seems to prevail amongst (some of) the shooting fraternity.
 
Unbelievable. That something like this could happen in a country where we are supposedly more enlightened about conservation is utterly incomprehensible.
 
Does this make us the only country in the world proposing a cull of a native species to protect an introduced one ?
The ruddy duck cull was justified by the reverse argument -DEFRA can't have it both ways.
 
Those with Twittering accounts tweet @DefragovUK to vent your fury.

Utterly ridiculous! £400k yo be wasted on this project that could be pumped into saving hen harriers.
 
The BTO MUST stop supplying contextual data on all raptors to DEFRA. It is only because that Buzzards are demonstrably shown to be "common" by YOUR (OUR) data that DEFRA can support these ridiculous studies and even consider a cull. SUPPRESS the data.

Peregrines will be next.

And then, the ultimate irony, Red Kites. It will happen if we don't stop this now.

cheers, a
 
lewis20126 said:
Andy, this is one individual junior minister.

cheers, alan
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Whilst true Andy, Voting Conservative is truly likely to increase the support that the ruling, landowner classes get from Government.

Therefore sadly , Tory Vote = Extra support for Shooting practices and the species control that follows. Do you really think that hunting with dogs would have been outlawed under a right-wing Government?

In the same way I feel sure that the RSPB are not pushing the case for Vocarious Liability in England for the simple case that they realise this is a lost cause while we have this Government in office.
 
I thought this wad a birding forum, not a political one? We could go all off track discussing the benefits of the 'loony left' running the country into the ground or the Conservatives and their unpopular policies, but this won't save the buzzards!

They're all as bad as each other. As Billy Connolly once said, 'Anyone who shows the slightest inclination towards holding political office should automatically be precluded from holding such office.'

Never a truer work said in jest.
 
lewis20126 said:
Andy, this is one individual junior minister.

cheers, alan
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But typically he is consulting his own kind on environmental issues. Quite happy to screw anyone and anything for the benefit of the "ruling classes", they are despicable.
 

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lewis20126 said:
The BTO MUST stop supplying contextual data on all raptors to DEFRA. It is only because that Buzzards are demonstrably shown to be "common" by YOUR (OUR) data that DEFRA can support these ridiculous studies and even consider a cull. SUPPRESS the data.

Peregrines will be next.

And then, the ultimate irony, Red Kites. It will happen if we don't stop this now.

cheers, a
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Plus the usual "mistaken" identity which could impact on Honey Buzzard, Goshawk and Kites.
 
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