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Buzzard Cull
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So this has started, I believe. I can't find any up to date information. All I can find is info. from last year sayng it wasn't going to happen.
Does anyone know where I can look?
Does anyone know where I can look?
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Buzzard cull
Responsible department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
DEFRA is about to spend £375,000 on capturing buzzards and destroying their nests to see whether this reduces their consumption of young pheasants, despite presenting no evidence that buzzards make an impact on pheasant numbers.
This is state-sponsored persecution of a protected species to please some of the richest people in the country, who are pursuing a cruel, destructive and pointless activity. Again, this government is spending tax payers money for the 1% - or the 0.01%.
The government has no responsibility to protect pheasant shoots from our native wildlife, though it does have a responsibility to protect our native wildlife from pheasant shoots.
The government must abandon this pointless exercise and instead focus on helping the 99% and our native wildlife.
petition closed
Buzzard cull
Responsible department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
DEFRA is about to spend £375,000 on capturing buzzards and destroying their nests to see whether this reduces their consumption of young pheasants, despite presenting no evidence that buzzards make an impact on pheasant numbers.
This is state-sponsored persecution of a protected species to please some of the richest people in the country, who are pursuing a cruel, destructive and pointless activity. Again, this government is spending tax payers money for the 1% - or the 0.01%.
The government has no responsibility to protect pheasant shoots from our native wildlife, though it does have a responsibility to protect our native wildlife from pheasant shoots.
The government must abandon this pointless exercise and instead focus on helping the 99% and our native wildlife.
//The government has no responsibility to protect pheasant shoots from our native wildlife, though it does have a responsibility to protect our native wildlife from pheasant shoots.//
Pheasant shoots actually do a tremendous amount of good for our wildlife, in making and keeping vast areas of woodland suitable for pheasants and managing the woodland accordingly makes it suitable for much of our native wildlife.
Pheasant shoots actually do a tremendous amount of good for our wildlife, in making and keeping vast areas of woodland suitable for pheasants and managing the woodland accordingly makes it suitable for much of our native wildlife.
Ratter, when did anyone say "I won't clear that woodland because my commercially raised pheasants use it" ? There's not a square inch of woodland which would have been cleared that's been kept because of commercial pheasant rearing.
Very few pheasants that get shot are truly wild. Nearly all are raised commercially; there'd be no point in charging for shooting parties if there was not an abundance, an unnatural abundance even, of birds for them to shoot.
Destroying buzzard nests is simply being done for commercial profit.
Very few pheasants that get shot are truly wild. Nearly all are raised commercially; there'd be no point in charging for shooting parties if there was not an abundance, an unnatural abundance even, of birds for them to shoot.
Destroying buzzard nests is simply being done for commercial profit.
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Looks like if you're a member of the Royal family you can get away with shooting rare species!
Pity they don't cull certain members of society that are parasites on the the rest of us!
Looks like if you're a member of the Royal family you can get away with shooting rare species!
Pity they don't cull certain members of society that are parasites on the the rest of us!
Last year's episode was only ever going to be a trial to see if destroying nests and relocating trapped birds would work to reduce local 'hot-spots' of buzzard population.
The public stopped that with their protests.
Now, very quietly, I believe licences have been issued to those in a 'hotspot' with a problem without knowing if they will be effective.
It never was proposed to have a 'cull'.
I don't know what the terms of the current licences permit, whether they have stuck to the original idea of relocation and breeding control or have permitted destruction of problem birds.
The public stopped that with their protests.
Now, very quietly, I believe licences have been issued to those in a 'hotspot' with a problem without knowing if they will be effective.
It never was proposed to have a 'cull'.
I don't know what the terms of the current licences permit, whether they have stuck to the original idea of relocation and breeding control or have permitted destruction of problem birds.
They have licenced the removal of 4 nests......
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FredPuli43, there is not a lot you can tell me about pheasant shoots and rearing and I can tell you that the pheasant shooting industry as a whole does a lot for wildlife, they manage their woodlands very well actually. I have nothing to gain by sticking up for pheasant shoots, it really isn't my scene but I do know a fair bit about it. I would say that virtually every pheasant shot on big shoots is bought and raised for the purpose of shooting and there is very big money in commercial pheasant shoots so it has to be professionally managed.
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