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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nirofo" data-source="post: 1400898" data-attributes="member: 1854">It's the same with humans as well, if the local supermarket shuts down we have to go and shop elsewhere or else we starve!!! Surely it's not beyond the brain of man to see that Raptors can't survive without something to eat, if the prey disappears then so do the Raptors, the fact that Black Grouse numbers are so low is not the fault of birds of prey. Every time bird numbers decline in a particular area it's the Raptors or some other predator that is blamed, unfortunately by doing this it takes the heat of the bad land management practices such as the spraying of insecticides, the ploughing in of stubbles, ripping up hedgerows, draining the meadows and wetlands, ploughing up the flow bogs and planting with useless Lodgepole Pine and Sitka Spruce. Add to this the continual uncontrolled persecution the Raptors have to contend with from the so-called sporting fraternity and others and it's a wonder they're surviving at all. nirofo.</blockquote>