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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pete Mella" data-source="post: 3230330" data-attributes="member: 47236">It's not a very classy move to sell it for housing against the lady's wishes, but I do have sympathy for an organisation that has been handed something like this. What exactly were they supposed to do with it? As others have said, they look after carefully chosen places, not random scraps of land. A lesson that you really need to research if someone wants something before you give it to them in your will and tell them they can never do anything useful with it.On a side note, it's a shame stories like this now see the press phone "You Forgot The Birds" for a counter comment, giving air to grousekeeping shills who lobby against everything the RSPB does so they can erode their public image, making it easier for them to shoot Hen Harriers and Buzzards.</blockquote>