Rewilding
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Another successful project! There will be some disappointing moments I’m sure but so far relatively few. Well done all involved!👍
https://www.forestryengland.uk/news/white-tailed-eagles-successfully-returning-the-english-landscape?utm_campaign=wildlife_newsletter_180122&utm_medium=email&utm_source=wildlife_newsletter1 -
Yes, he has Fish - and the NGO has benefitted from the donations made to them by the interested parties. Poetic justice indeed!
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Non-Governmental Organisation.
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Is that the one you are a member of?l
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When all our badgers in Cornwall have been culled / killed. what animals are the rewilders going to offer us instead?
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National Gamekeepers Organisation.
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Culled/killed?, It’ll be the Birds next, they are bringing in Avian flu that are killing the game birds naturally, which is jolly unfair as they are marked down to be blasted from the sky. It’s quite infuriating for the shootists as they lose that pleasure-Mother Nature eh what is she thinking of?🤷🏻♂️🙄
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As the saying goes, ‘be prepared to lose the battle in order to win the war.’
Thankfully increasingly more little battles are being won, here is an example!
I’m sure that there are a few ‘good’ gamekeepers out there, in fact I know so, but clearly some need bringing to task. This action needs to be continued. I’m also sure many of us would agree.
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Come on the eco warriors/ pressure groups are getting dafter every day. The Insulation bloke who has not insulated his own home. Yeaterday the woman trying to ban conservatories doing a tv interview from her own conservatory. The rewilders who dont own a single acre of countryside. etc etc.
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We need more Wildlife keepers & less gamekeepers. However ‘good’ a gamekeeper is he is paid by an organisation that views living creatures as a commodity to be used to generate profit, if profit suffers then the reason for profit loss(other wildlife) will be removed to protect the bottom line. There lies the issue-living creatures are a barrier to bigger profits & they will suffer😢
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I guess it’s down to one’s interest that their perceptions are borne. I thought that woman actually made a very valid comment- yesteryears building regulations are not fit for today and certainly not the future. Illustrated by example, point well made. The real dafties choose not to see it that way and twist. It was clear to sensible folk what she was actually advocating. And that’s precisely why the building regs will be amended. Sensible don’t you think!
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The rewilding agenda is going from strength to strength. Over 80% of people support the notion, projects in place and those planned for the future.👍
Use the link below to find out more!
https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/blog/brits-are-behind-rewilding?utm_source=Rewilding+Britain+newsletter&utm_campaign=89f3ec8eda-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_JAN_NEWS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6591f59cfd-89f3ec8eda-389842437&mc_cid=89f3ec8eda&mc_eid=b114d156580 -
I've posted these pictures before and its not exactly rewilding as per the rest of the thread, but we can all do our bit. We gave our front garden the wild flower meadow treatment for 2020. Insects and wildlife love it, as do we and below is what we had for our 2nd summer.
Added advantages are a once per year cut, no watering and when you go away on holiday nobody would think you're away due to scruffy front lawn.
We sourced a seed mix to order from Cotswold Seeds, mixed to our request. It cost about £60 for our 50 x 50 ft area.
Colin
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That is most pleasing to the eye em. That’s beauty in nature right there👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Too many roads and people criss-crossing for wolves to be very happy about it I would imagine.
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Oh yes it is part of the rewilding agenda. Every little helps, even the creation of the humble pond in the garden or roadside verge left unmown or the field margins eco manage for song birds and other truly wild creatures all contribute to the big picture. Yes, other more ambitious projects clearly have a place where safe and the healing work has taken place but let’s not kid ourselves, from little acorns mighty oaks are grown. Start small and build bigger where possible and where viable. The latest news about toxic chemicals in our rivers and even upland watersheds is horrific, not to mention human waste in the lower reaches. What have we been thinking about? What have we done? Rewilding is as much about the cities as it is the moors and mountains, the woods and forrests, the streams and rivers, the coast and sea. All of these habitats are In everyone’s ‘backyard’, they are all connected. Backgardens help but larger areas are also very beneficial too. There’s a awful lot of cleaning up to do, reseeding and rewilding in our habitats to be done. Thankfully the message and action is growing a pace. We humans can live along side and with nature in fact we have to!
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That’s just OTT fish, it’ll never happen, Wolves will never run free in this country, within enclosures for sure but never truly wild. Your attempted scare tactics are too far into fantasy to gain traction🤷🏻♂️🙄
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Not only OTT and fantastical but sounds like the death throes of a lost argument to me.
Don’t start me on the ridiculous stance on lead shot pollution and this government’s ludicrous stance when it comes to replacing it with other non toxic materials. Another example of the few who are protective of the huge amount of damage done by the few in our environment in the name of what is called sport. That’s opened a can of poisoned worms I guess. Please note I’m not against shooting as a pastime mind, and some shooters are responsible and have changed their ways and are respectful of wildlife, habitats and even the rewilding agenda. Some are not and some are actively supporting the illegal eradication of some species in their backyards for their own ends.4 -
mickysf.
You would struggle with your conscious if you lived by me. I live up a country lane surrounded by fields and most of the time there can be half a dozen Pheasants eating my expensive bird food. Once a a fortnight a tractor pulling a seated trailer passes the house aboard the trailer, about 20 people with guns and for the next couple of hours all you hear is gunshot. Out of season some Pheasants will virtually come to the back door looking for an easy meal and one used to consider my greenhouse his roosting spot. To even think that shooting and killing these creatures is sport is beyond me.
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I do, and I also see countless road kill game bird corpses littering the roads around us at certain time of the year. Good for the raptors like kites or buzzards feeding on carrion one may shout but unfortunately these magnificent birds are also being shot and even lured into traps to be killed or poisoned using these corpses as bait by some unscrupulous folk.
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Be interesting to see have funding for shooting works out now. In the past a lot was available for raising pheasants, here’s hoping that will stop now. There’s gathering momentum to stop moorland burning as well, manage it other ways.
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It isn’t ‘sport’ it’s bloodlust, if the Pheasant had a shotgun like the shootist & they chased each other that would be sporting but a (beautiful) Pheasant that has one & only one defence-flying & the shootist who knows the Pheasant can’t out fly the wide spray of shot that is not sport it’s killing for enjoyment & in the 21st century it’s barbaric😤
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Just remember the shooting of tame pheasants is the sport of the elite, city merchants, dealers and yuppies.No real countryman would go out to shoot 300 birds in a few hours. They turn up in Chelsea teactors and Helicopters, shoot for 2 hours, get a boozy lunch and do their networking, shoot again for 2 hours then get back in their vehicles returning to the towns and cities, Country people only shoot what they can eat or need controlling. The breeding of these birds is by massive commercial organisation. The country folks deal, is provide some of their land for rent ( but motly on Estates financed by non farming cash) and pick up the birds, usually for burrying afer. The participants have no connection with the countryside, wildlife or us yokels.
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You are right in some of this in my opinion but unfortunately it’s that very corporate side of this ‘sport’ that sickens so many. This corporate money keeps those abhorrent shooting estates in their dirty, wasteful and cruel business. The corporate days very often involve those non real countrymen you talk of. Some estates offer corporate days where individuals are introduced to and taught the skills and then an opportunity to experience the blood lust. If it was just us ‘yokels’ doing it solely for our table then there would be no more of those estates as we witness today. The money would disappear and many of the cruel issues and land sterilisation for the propagation of what is almost monocultures would also disappear. The breeding of birds to the gun would all but stop too. Much work to be done in reaching this position mind as many will claim the ‘yokel’ angle to justify keeping the ‘sport’ alive and in an attempt to muddy the waters.
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Don’t know why you’re getting so exercised…. as Prince Andrew said “it’s just a straightforward shooting weekend”. 😉
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Just trying to redress the balance of the country people/ farming bashing. Most people believe its us yokels that have desroyed wildlife. Over the years its the toffs and business moguls and their big estates who were the culprits. Essentially city folks who expoited workers.made their money and moved to the country.
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