ANIMAL FORUM

> We have spent billions over the last few decades in feeding
> CONservation hooligans to supposedly protect wildlife and habitat, yet
> without exclusion they have presided over the greatest decline in
> habitat and species the world has ever known. Instead of dealing with
> genuine conservation issues, they choose to inflict Nazi style
> principles in the slaughter of millions of animals in order to
> artificially produce fashion species! The red squirrel and hedgehogs
> are prime examples. Slaughtered in their millions in the past, in the
> case of the hedgehog the RSPB/SNH killing was still going on up until
> last year. This is despite the fact genuine conservationists were
> warning the species was in grave decline.
>
> Thats CONservation hooliganism for you.
>
> Beware who is pocketing your money if its not reaching the species
> and habitats that need protecting, which it clearly isnt.
>
> Just check the accounts of the likes of RSPB, Woodland Trust etc and
> see how much of our hard earned cash is spent on junk mail
> advertising, big fancy houses as HQs etc!
>
> Published: 01 January 2008
> Several of Britains best-known animal species, ranging from the
> hedgehog to the harbour seal, are now suffering declines that require
> serious conservation action, according to a comprehensive report on
> the status of British mammals.
>
> The report, from the Mammals Trust UK, which is funded by the Peoples
> Trust for Endangered Species, identifies an assortment of factors
> including climate change, the spread of infectious diseases,
> agricultural and forestry practices, and not least, human activity, as
> combining to place ever increasing pressure on already fragile
> wildlife populations.
>
> The result is that declines are accelerating in animals once
> considered common, such as the hedgehog, as well as those which are
> already scarce or localised, such as the Scottish wildcat.
>
> An indication of the stress on British mammal populations came earlier
> this year when nine new species were added to Britains wildlife
> conservation blueprint, the UK Biodiversity Action Plan. The hedgehog,
> the mountain hare, the pine marten, the polecat, the Scottish wildcat,
> the harvest mouse, the noctule and brown long-eared bats, and the
> harbour seal (formerly the common seal), were added to the list of
> British mammals already requiring conservation action, such as the red
> squirrel and the water vole.
>
> The lengthening list of environmental problems is increasingly hitting
> mammals, say the reports authors, David Macdonald and Dawn Burnham
> from the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at the University of
> Oxford. The roll call of environmental topicality seems more strident
> in 2007 than ever before, and wild mammals are touched by every topic
> on the list, they say.
>
> How are agri-environment schemes to deliver food, biodiversity and
> rural livelihoods, how is society to balance its respect for
> individuals and humaneness with its desire to use, manage and develop,
> how is this nation to provide its evermore urban citizens with contact
> with nature that is increasingly recognised as important for their
> well-being and health?
>
> The glimpse of a small furry creature may seem a trivial thing, but
> it is increasingly the hallmark of quality of life issues.
>
> They also point out that mammal populations are likely to have been
> hit extremely hard by the floods last summer. Innumerable small
> bodies floated on the many square kilometers of water that immersed
> the fields around our homes, they say, speculating that this may
> represent the future, if the record-breaking rainfall was a sign of
> approaching global warming.
>
> The sight of rabbits clustered on diminishing islands, wood mice
> shivering in the upper branches of hedgerows, and a roe deer splashing
> waist deep across a field all give a sense of meaning to concepts like
> mitigation and adaptation in the face of climate change, not to
> mention the planning implications for those three million new house
> that the Prime Minister hopes to see swiftly built

>Adenoid Hynkel . wrote:
>> We have spent billions over the last few decades in feeding
>> CONservation hooligans to supposedly protect wildlife and habitat, yet
>> without exclusion they have presided over the greatest decline in
>> habitat and species the world has ever known. Instead of dealing with
>> genuine conservation issues, they choose to inflict Nazi style
>> principles in the slaughter of millions of animals in order to
>> artificially produce fashion species! The red squirrel and hedgehogs
>> are prime examples. Slaughtered in their millions in the past, in the
>> case of the hedgehog the RSPB/SNH killing was still going on up until
>> last year. This is despite the fact genuine conservationists were
>> warning the species was in grave decline.
>>
>> Thats CONservation hooliganism for you.
>>
>> Beware who is pocketing your money if its not reaching the species
>> and habitats that need protecting, which it clearly isnt.
>>
>> Just check the accounts of the likes of RSPB, Woodland Trust etc and
>> see how much of our hard earned cash is spent on junk mail
>> advertising, big fancy houses as HQs etc!
>>
>> Published: 01 January 2008
>> Several of Britains best-known animal species, ranging from the
>> hedgehog to the harbour seal, are now suffering declines that require
>> serious conservation action, according to a comprehensive report on
>> the status of British mammals.
>>
>> The report, from the Mammals Trust UK, which is funded by the Peoples
>> Trust for Endangered Species, identifies an assortment of factors
>> including climate change, the spread of infectious diseases,
>> agricultural and forestry practices, and not least, human activity, as
>> combining to place ever increasing pressure on already fragile
>> wildlife populations.
>>
>> The result is that declines are accelerating in animals once
>> considered common, such as the hedgehog, as well as those which are
>> already scarce or localised, such as the Scottish wildcat.
>>
>> An indication of the stress on British mammal populations came earlier
>> this year when nine new species were added to Britains wildlife
>> conservation blueprint, the UK Biodiversity Action Plan. The hedgehog,
>> the mountain hare, the pine marten, the polecat, the Scottish wildcat,
>> the harvest mouse, the noctule and brown long-eared bats, and the
>> harbour seal (formerly the common seal), were added to the list of
>> British mammals already requiring conservation action, such as the red
>> squirrel and the water vole.
>>
>> The lengthening list of environmental problems is increasingly hitting
>> mammals, say the reports authors, David Macdonald and Dawn Burnham
>> from the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at the University of
>> Oxford. The roll call of environmental topicality seems more strident
>> in 2007 than ever before, and wild mammals are touched by every topic
>> on the list, they say.
>>
>> How are agri-environment schemes to deliver food, biodiversity and
>> rural livelihoods, how is society to balance its respect for
>> individuals and humaneness with its desire to use, manage and develop,
>> how is this nation to provide its evermore urban citizens with contact
>> with nature that is increasingly recognised as important for their
>> well-being and health?
>>
>> The glimpse of a small furry creature may seem a trivial thing, but
>> it is increasingly the hallmark of quality of life issues.
>>
>> They also point out that mammal populations are likely to have been
>> hit extremely hard by the floods last summer. Innumerable small
>> bodies floated on the many square kilometers of water that immersed
>> the fields around our homes, they say, speculating that this may
>> represent the future, if the record-breaking rainfall was a sign of
>> approaching global warming.
>>
>> The sight of rabbits clustered on diminishing islands, wood mice
>> shivering in the upper branches of hedgerows, and a roe deer splashing
>> waist deep across a field all give a sense of meaning to concepts like
>> mitigation and adaptation in the face of climate change, not to
>> mention the planning implications for those three million new house
>> that the Prime Minister hopes to see swiftly built