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Message: <blockquote data-quote="myoudale" data-source="post: 1451815" data-attributes="member: 73459">Im not sure where i stand on this, or what side i will step to. I will just need a cushion as im on the fence.On one side im very for leaving things to sort itself out, that’s how all the different flora and fauna, are on our planet, due to evolution basically. So will natural selection not act on the species which are having problems now, with any need to man to take control. On the other side, man has driven the environment to change so dramatically that is why we are facing huge problems such as climate change. Therefore maybe man feels as they have altered it so much they feel a need to try and put things back to as it was.  If any sort of control is going to be used, testing is absolutely crucial therefore we can try and reduce to threat to other organisms within the ecosystem we are trying to protect. If you take any one organism out of the web, it will have knock on effects to lots of other things, therefore altering the landscape and the habitats which we have created in the first place. I think Chris hit the nail on the head when it was said 'This is yet another example of Man causing the problem'. I might be miss interpreting this, but surely it IS down to lack of education on the environment and all the different 'things' which make it what it is. For people to understand we need to go back to root of the problem and educate.When does the animal welfare issue come in? The five freedoms and all that?It is right to purposely go out and kill animals when they are doing what one of their 5 freedoms is and showing natural behaviour?</blockquote>

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