Ah, Scotland!! Another country indeed. One thing I have noticed and discussed with friends is how, hereabouts, poverty has been, for wildlife and community in part, a social good; it has prevented all sorts of 'improvement' and development with the result that nature/wildlife has a better shot at things. A lot of hill farmers either don't need or can't afford fertilisers etc and don't have time and energy to 'keep things tidy' which seems like an increasingly suburban influence in the countryside. In the same way, for communities there are not the same levels of disparity in wealth and poverty though I am far from denying really serious social problems and deprivation in the countryside. It just feels a bit as if it is less bad generally than where intensive agriculture, development and suburbanisation/gentrification has taken place.
We have curlew, peregrines, masses of kite, buzzards, ravens, polecats, stoats and weasels as well as otters, badgers, foxes, deer, wild pigs and all manner of 'general' bird life and dark skies. Where I used to live we had nightingales though their disappearance was something that brought me to realise how utterly vital it is to look after those habitats and threatened species.
I know it is very different where there is far more pressure on land and populations and more money to 'improve' things.
There were curlew nesting in a field near me last year and the field got cut for silage while they were nesting and I haven't seen any this year ?
The farmers in these parts thankfully are generally very protective and very, very careful about curlew and that obviously helps other things.I suspect the fall out from this is going to be pretty huge. The lady’s been named all over sm, her place of work identified and National press picking up on the story.
But still no official statement from the Cottesmore or Hunting Office ??
That's the name that I've seen being spread around. The school seems to have frozen its FB page.
This ended up on social media because a self styled expert, who has a large presence on a publicly owned broadcaster, felt it appropriate to put it on social media, in the guise of drawing the attention of the RSPCA
I suspect the fall out from this is going to be pretty huge. The lady’s been named all over sm, her place of work identified and National press picking up on the story.
But still no official statement from the Cottesmore or Hunting Office ??
In what possible context, time or date does this even matter?
We are tenants on a shooting estate, they have improved vastly over the last 25 years, we have a sound population of raptors and plenty of deer. We also have a population of lampers and poachers who dont give a rats anal orifice about the law and are not botherd who they intimidate. Not seen on SM or the telly.
