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Message: <blockquote data-quote="string boozel" data-source="post: 3255987" data-attributes="member: 124353">Oops, it was certainly not my intention to deflect the finger of shame away from the likely culprits. It was a rather clumsy attempt to illustrate that a balanced and functioning natural ecosystem has a way of regulating species numbers without illegal human interference. Those other creatures that get short shrift around hunting estates, mammalian predators and corvids could also help to control ground nesting raptors (not that the tiny population requires it) but of course the shooting fraternity with its apologists and propagandists have no interest in maintaining a natural balance.I'm firmly of the belief that recreational killing should be consigned to the past with such other wholesome pastimes as bear baiting, cock fighting and hopefully, fox hunting. Sadly it is extremely unlikely to happen given how deeply the members of the shooting fraternity are embedded within the establishment but we must hope for a change before the matter becomes irrelevant.James.</blockquote>