Outrageous Curlew Slaughter
Just read that the French government are going to allow hunters to slaughter 6000 Curlew each year. I cannot believe that a so called civilised nation could allow the butchery of these hauntingly beautiful birds which are already endangered
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OP I am shocked by this news as curlew numbers are down in the UK.
Just looked up some different web sites to find the French can hunt 64 species of birds some I find very shocking and the LPO like UK RSPB have been writing to the government re these issues and not getting anywhere. 6000 is a huge number and I have not seen any curlews around this area.
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There's a change.org petition trying to stop Nature England from licencing the culling of Ravens and other wild birds.
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They have such an evocative call, don't they. Great to hear them as they fly up from a seashore or over a moor.
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Nothing surprises me but I continue to be sickened by this and other so called culls! Also the similar actions of some in the name of sport and/or pleasure particularly the illegal persecution of our raptors. Those too spewing toxic lead shot all over the country side in the name of enjoyment need to be educated and stopped.
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Thick fog or rolling mist over marshes, Curlews calling. It gives me goosebumps just remembering the many encounters. It is a testament to the power hunters have over Govt’s. It truly is sickening. A life lost to amuse & entertain the few😢
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In the UK approximately 2.6 million cattle, 10 million pigs, 14.5 million sheep and lambs, 80 million fish and 950 million birds are slaughtered in the food chain.
....I can only imagine that say a Hindu culture looks at the UK, a so called civilised nation, and wonders how it could allow the butchery of 2,600,000 of its most sacred animals every year, for its own personal enjoyment!?
...just saying
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I doubt very much that any of the Animals you refer to will ever be ‘at risk’ curlews are declining yet are killed for fun☹️
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Do you partake of any of those you numbered, CJ?
....just asking
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Yes....a great many!
I have no issues with eating meat, was simply pointing out there was some cultural assassination on going "...Barbaric Frenchies!"
...and that he without sin should cast the first stone!
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Surely even you can see the difference between raising and killing animals, including birds, for food and the wanton slaughter of wild birds for the fun of it!!
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Yes, we were ignorant and thus educated about supermarket fuels and additives, Now it's 'our' time to right the wrong and pay back the compliment in the name of those defenceless truely wild creatures in what really is their own environment!
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- What great news RK. All we need to do now is stop Middle Eastern countries killing approx 4.5 million birds a year, stop the Maltese killing Turtle Doves allegedly mistaking them for Snipe which they are licensed to hunt. Not forgetting the people in Britain who kill BofP
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Agree with you OP. We did have 1 pair of Turtle Doves in the next field this year but they had gone after 6 weeks then appeared again next to OH's shed and wonder what calling and they were trying to compete with the Nightingales.
As to Stumpy think another lizard had taken over his stretch on the terrace as I have not seen today.
Have a good trip to France tomorrow, we are off to the Dordogne to a site overlooking at Beynac Chateau and will look to see what is about in the area might even see some terns on the river as they have been there before.
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Feeling hungry now
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Just heard that the French Government are going to allow thousands of Turtle Doves to be slaughter, what on earth are they thinking of, they are a declining protected bird
BREAKING: French government gives go-ahead for thousands of European Turtle Doves to be shot this autumn
Read more: http://bit.ly/2jQJI0i
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