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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Farnboro John" data-source="post: 3254834" data-attributes="member: 36432">And next week on "Talking B*******"......Most of us would have no difficulty with law-abiding gamekeepers (well some small difficulties but no legal quarrel, perhaps). However, all the evidence of how Hen Harriers exist where persecution is lacking, compared to the distribution map overlaying English Hen Harrier population onto suitable habitat onto game-managed upland moorland, demonstrates beyond reasonable doubt that gamekeepers, and by extension their corrupt, selfish, above-the-law employers, are responsible for the current situation due to a campaign of deliberate extermination.Only the difficulty of mounting permanent, habitat-wide surveillance in the face of deliberate absence of co-operation from the aforementioned employers, who if they had nothing to hide would have nothing to lose by co-operating, obstructs and prevents the gathering of prosecution-quality data on these outlaw barbarians.We know.John</blockquote>