598 Foxes Killed By The RSPB In One Year - The Reality Of 'Conservation' In The 21st Century12/2/2020
"Where were the RSPB....?" I've lost count of the number of RSPB members who have contacted me, complaining about the Society's initial response to Natural England's bird kill licences. When I first revealed the shocking statistics behind the bird culls, the natural reaction from many of my blog readers was to contact the RSPB for reassurance. While it seemed obvious for members to turn to their Society for advice, people tell me that they were disappointed with the banal responses they received. The RSPB was hardly reassuring its worried supporters with statements like: "...without knowing the reasons for each license, it is impossible to comment on individual cases, but some of the species that have been listed raise questions..." By the time our petition had reached a quarter of a million signatures, the RSPB were telling one of my readers: "...we are aware of this matter and are trying to find out further detail. This may take some time so I’d ask you to bear with us while we investigate." The Society added that it was "in the process of working with Natural England....on the licencing process", but there were suggestions that the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds should have already known the extent of Natural England's bird killing.... never mind having to 'investigate'. "...As members of the RSPB, shouldn’t they have told us?" Discussion on my blog began to tell a story of growing dissatisfaction with the RSPB, some people were even beginning to question the role of the Society in protecting the nation's bird life, "...it does make you wonder why we have to rely on Jason to tell us this stuff. As members of the RSPB, shouldn’t they have told us?" asked one reader, while another remarked "I am also an RSPB member and cant think why they are not more involved in all this." The RSPB killed nearly 600 foxes in just one year.... Some felt that the Society had been ambivalent over a flawed licensing regime that had gone unchallenged for years. However, the RSPB has been involved in its own killing spree.... As part of its conservation efforts, the RSPB kills thousands of animals and birds each year. The Society is quite open about this, even publishing an annual summary of its own wildlife culling. Yet many of its members seem unaware that RSPB management initiatives involve large scale slaughter of selected wildlife. I took a look at the most recent set of statistics, which were published by the RSPB last July. I have to say that the figures seem shockingly high, even with an understanding of the motives behind the killing (motives with which I personally strongly disagree). In just one year, between September 2017 and August 2018, the Society killed 598 foxes and 800 Crows, on and off its reserves, as part of its work in conserving various threatened species of birds.
RSPB destroying eggs of amber listed Barnacle Geese.... The RSPB also destroyed 322 Canada Goose eggs and 321 Greylag goose eggs (the reason given for this action being 'Air Safeguarding'). They also removed 22 Barnacle Goose nests and destroyed more than 100 eggs of this amber listed species (in the name of 'Tern and Avocet conservation'). In total the Society killed at least 2,719 animals and birds in just one year. "An option based on rigorous scientific research..." One of my readers, worried about fox and crow killing at their local RSPB reserve, was told that "...occasionally, when all other options have proved ineffective, we have had to resort to lethal control to protect some of our most threatened and vulnerable species..." and that "it is an option based on rigorous scientific research..." But surely it is not beyond the means of an organisation as large and resourceful as the RSPB to have found a way to capture and relocate at least some of the animals on its kill list? And surely there are far better ways of controlling birds than wrecking nests and eggs. Am I naïve in suggesting that, rather than destroying the Barnacle goose eggs, they could be removed if necessary, and hatched elsewhere to maintain the population of this threatened species? "These decisions can be controversial...." Of course the RSPB feels that it can justify its action, but as the Society's Global Conservation Director, Martin Harper, admits in his introduction to the figures, "these decisions can be controversial". Something of an understatement perhaps. Controversial indeed... it seems odd, for example, that the Society still advocates the use of Larsen traps to catch and kill corvids, a cruel system that has been outlawed in other countries. In recent years, there has also been criticism of the way the Society chooses to despatch foxes and other mammals. I don't doubt that the RSPB carry out some excellent work, but it does worry me that they exterminate large numbers of animals, and for so long apparently ignored the slaughter of thousands of birds, many of conservation concern, that were being killed under licences issued by Natural England. Public pressure brings change... It took the determined and remarkable efforts of our campaigners, members of the public, to bring about more transparency at Natural England. Our petition, with nearly 360,000 supporters, made huge strides in bringing about change at Natural England. Many think that this should have been the job of the RSPB. The RSPB do seem to be more engaged now, recently telling one of my readers that "we are asking Natural England for greater transparency on their decision-making process......we are recommending that there is clearer data collection and publication of this data which, where necessary, will enable Natural England to be held accountable for the decisions they make." The frustrating part is that I was already saying that more than a year ago, while it had apparently taken the RSPB some time to acknowledge, at least publicly, that there was a problem at all - and to speak out. An increasingly skeptical - and knowledgeable - public Perhaps we need to question the RSPB itself over its extensive killing of native wild animals and birds. 598 foxes in one year? 800 Crows? Doesn't this seem excessive? As more and more of the Society's members discover that protecting a handful of species involves killing thousands of other animals and birds, the RSPB might have to work harder to placate an increasingly skeptical - and knowledgeable - public. Are contrived 'reserves', for selected species, really the answer? How, one wonders, did wildlife survive before it was so carefully managed by the likes of the RSPB and Natural England? Humankind has desecrated habitat and countryside to such an extent that many species simply cannot naturally thrive in this country - that is why we have artificially contrived areas of habitat, 'reserved' for these selected species, often at the expense of other animals. Clearly we have a need for reserves like those run by the RSPB, due to the mess we have made of our countryside - but there is a danger of accepting them as an alternative to proper protection of the environment outside these areas of conservation. Note HS2 and its desecration of ancient woodland, where 'mitigation' measures merely facilitate destruction. Reserves must not become zoos. Species which are currently being exterminated on reserves, may soon themselves be under threat elsewhere. Personally I think we should celebrate - yes and protect - those species that have found a way to thrive in the hostile environments that we have created. That includes foxes and crows. And gulls and geese. Killing them in large numbers, as a means to conserve other species, whose demise was itself caused by misguided human activity, seems like flawed thinking. It's killing, it's exterminating lives of wild animals. In a world on the brink of natural disaster and mass extinctions, is killing more animals really the best solution? The RSPB kill figures for 2017 to 2018 include:- Carrion/Hooded Crow: 800, Fallow Deer: 38, Muntjac Deer: 38, Roe Deer: 333, Red Deer: 547 Sika Deer: 146 Feral Goat: 4 Fox: 598 Grey Squirrel: 97 Great Black-backed Gull: 3 shot, 2 nests removed Lesser Black-backed Gull: 5 shot, 30 nests removed Herring Gull: 2 shot, 19 nests removed Mink:108 * statistics have been collated from RSPB published figures. The author has attempted to reference them as accurately as possible from the source material.
76 Comments
Jayne Matthews
15/2/2020 06:39:07 am
The statistics I read about the RSPB, culling wildlife is disgusting.
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Gregg
15/2/2020 08:34:58 am
Then you think wildlife lives like Disney characters.
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Julie
7/3/2020 12:03:29 pm
Gregg, we do not think that wildlife live like Disney Characters …..this forum is for people who care about the state of our wildlife, environment and how it affects the planet in general......unhelpful comments are not conducive!
Lynda Johnson
15/2/2020 11:52:38 am
Please link your reference materials properly so that we can all draw our own conclusions.
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Darren Rose
15/2/2020 08:32:17 pm
https://community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/martinharper/posts/the-conservationist-39-s-dilemma-an-update-on-the-science-policy-and-practice-of-the-impact-of-predators-on-wild-birds-5
Maureen RichardsMBE
15/2/2020 04:24:40 pm
IF WE CANNOT TRUST THE RSPB THEN WHO CAN WE TRUST TO HELP US PROTECT OUR WILD ANIMALS!! WHAT A DISGRACE, WILL NEVER EVER GIVE AGAIN AND I SUGGEST NO ONE ELSE DOES MUST HIT THEM THE ONLY WAY POSSIBLE WITH NO FUNDING😡😡😡🤮🤮🤮🤮🦊🦊🦊🦊😢😢😢😢
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Josie Hampstead
17/2/2020 12:04:05 am
I TOTALLY agree with you Maureen.
Chrissie Horsley
17/2/2020 02:51:33 am
I also agree. I'm disgusted with the RSPB. Conservation? 26/10/2020 08:39:15 am
Jason are you incapable of thinking this through? If not you shouldn't be supporting the hunters view, unless of course your one in disguise? You know if predators are not manage sensitive species will disappear and you failed to put that argument. Why? Rationally explain the reasons for managing foxes the you'll have more credibility. Otherwise it appears you are pulling 9n emotional heartstrings for click bait. Painting fraternity know licencing of game bird hunting is coming partly due to pressure from RSPB all your doing is underming them. PS they don't publish the numbers of foxes they kill but you can be sure it's 10,000s and non of it even recorded let alone published. The RSPB publish their numbers for transparency what's better knowing about 600 dead foxes or not knowing about 10,000s? Don't dupe your readers. Regards
Mrs J Nye
13/1/2021 05:25:37 am
I too will not support them anymore as I did not know about this. Its disgusting.
Peter Salmon
25/3/2024 08:49:50 am
The rspb only exist ( like countless other charity fed schemes) because it’s based on business linked with emotionally loaded marketing.
Norman Murray
17/10/2020 12:36:23 pm
I'm afraid that is conservation or animal management, a lack of education of the public has not helped, the RSPB decry wildlife management to the public and then are found to be using the same management as it is necessary. there are many factors involved in NE or NS giving permission to cull . If left to the RSPB to decide they would stop everyone else from culling and cull what they deemed write for their agenda, red deer and mountain hares so they can plant trees, other various species that are deemed to be putting pressure on their reserves the rest can whistle, have a look at their reserves, prime reserves bought because of their diversity are are poorer because of their lack of management. The RSPB should have been defunded, they have a habit of spending far too much on projects, millions instead of tens of thousands. Most of their projects fail, problems left for decades before they act after pleading for funding, they let problems escalate so they can get more funding, the capercaillie being a prime example, a lack of predator control has allowed the capercaillie to drastically fall in numbers, yet they claim it is a lack of habitat, there is more habitat now that when they were first rescued from extinction. The RSPB are a business, that have a pensions black hole yet have enough money to cover this black hole but won't, yet they pay their top management fortunes, people are being made a fool of, they are taking advantage of their Royal patronage to get of with criminal activity such as money for votes with wind farms on and near to their reserves just one example.
Lynn Broughton
19/10/2020 07:52:52 pm
Why?????
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Anne carr
29/10/2020 09:43:22 pm
Our wild life is in danger we must save it now
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Frank Payne
13/1/2021 05:01:56 am
Yes it is disgusting! With so many species facing extinction through human encroachment, crass hunting and poaching, institutions like this should be moving for more active conservation measures to be adopted and habitats restored.
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Suzan
14/1/2021 05:33:11 pm
Shame on them this is cruel and should be stopped. They have rights as well
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michael cook
16/1/2021 04:24:41 pm
thats my donation for me and my wife stopped not paying them to kill our wildlife they suppose to protect them
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Mr David Guy-Johnson
8/1/2024 07:49:43 pm
Well done the RSPB. Predators like foxes and corvids need controlling because we have removed most of their predators. To believe nature can remain in balance otherwise is just a fantasy.
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Florence Fillot
15/2/2020 07:05:47 am
Culling animals? What about leaving nature alone, stop spraying chemicals, getting rid of fences and leave nature normal life and self regulation happen?
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Gregg
15/2/2020 08:35:58 am
Self regulation? Then lapwings and curlew become extinct...
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Fran ferris
15/2/2020 10:43:05 am
Sounds as if Gregg is very pro-kIlling.How can it be ethical to kill hundreds of animals and birds of some species in order to protect others? Have you never heard of ‘survival of the fittest’? It’s the way evolution works - without any interference from humans.Especially those masquerading as chatities
The man
15/2/2020 07:16:26 pm
Greggs the maaan, Gregg knows the deal, I like Gregg he’s not stupid
Stuart Ray
18/2/2020 11:02:28 am
yep self regulation thats the answer.......... Like survival of the fittest.
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Norman Murray
17/10/2020 12:38:20 pm
Planning dying are you, through starvation , LOL
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Stuart Drew
15/2/2020 09:59:08 am
Will be cancelling two memberships today
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Carrol walker
15/2/2020 02:56:57 pm
Will also be cancelling my membership i thought i was protecting birds not selecting ones to kill
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Susan Drew
22/11/2020 08:20:28 pm
I CANNOT support something that claims to be on the side of wildlife and then openly kills Our Native British wildlife!!! Disgusting and immoral on ALL levels !!!!
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christine davies
15/2/2020 11:32:46 am
Not surprised that this 'society' culls creatures in such numbers....they are merely following in the steps of their patron. About time HM stepped down....a charity whose patron and family...shoot/kill and maim anything that moves....simply for entertainment, sends totally the wrong message for any sort of 'protection', 'preservation' etc., nature will simply adapt and all they will achieve is the re-arrangement of habitats for numerous wildlife species, shows no foresight whatsoever. Dreadful 'organisation'.
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Terence Dite.
15/2/2020 02:19:47 pm
My wife and I were thinking of supporting the RSPB, thinking that apart from the PDSA they were the only animal charity actually helping and protecting animals and wildlife. Definately a consideration no longer.
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Fraz Fox .
15/2/2020 02:40:36 pm
I will be cancelling our membership . I don't hold with murdering animals/birds . And that is what you are doing . Murdering . . .
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Pamela
15/2/2020 03:04:45 pm
The RSPB are a disgrace !
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Every veg fest I go to has stalls of RSPB and Cats Protection League which annoys the heck out of me. Charities which kill innocent wildlife (RSPB) and which support non native predators (:Cats) which are known to kill all manner of heavily threatened animals who DO belong here, like wrens and slow worms, beetles and frogs, and anything smaller than them they come across. Speciesism is everywhere, and it sucks :(
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Tracy Middleton
15/2/2020 06:45:18 pm
What is going on this is horrific.
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Matt Knibb
15/2/2020 08:22:58 pm
These wildlife culls are a proper and correct part of wildlife management for effective conservation. Many of the species listed benefit hugely from the human dominated ecosystems around RSPB reserves, and would have serious negative impacts to the species of conservation importance found there. In a world that we have changed so much, it is folly to think we can sit back and just let nature take its course. Take the deer culls recorded here for example. Without large predators such as wolves, it is vital the deer are managed, for both the health of the habitat and for the remaining deer’s welfare.
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Jim
16/2/2020 08:05:29 am
Well said.
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roy allen
22/10/2020 02:54:53 pm
Before these so called conservation bodies were formed wildlife was successful and nature took care of numbers but when you so called clever educated people started interfering , mainly hunting fraternity etc that is when we lost most of our wild life and this applies all over the world species wiped out either by greed or for so called sport . I was once a RSPB member but found out what they stood for they do little to protect only some species and kill everything else they had the cheek to be fund raising in Tesco some time ago with a big model of a hedgehog hanging up yet they had been killing them off in a Scottish Island by the hundreds and they were telling people their funds were going to protect wildlife I informed the person who was there a RSPB worker about what they had done by bringing hedgehogs down in numbers too an endangered species and he was not aware of the culling , it is on the internet to see what they did
Andrew Tween
16/2/2020 10:51:15 am
Thank heavens a sane voice, if foxes go unchecked they become over populated, food sources dwindle and they actually starve to death
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roy allen
22/10/2020 02:41:46 pm
Absolute rubbish are you a countryside alliance member
Lyndon Roach
16/2/2020 06:29:32 pm
Well said Matt. Without control there would be chaos.
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maria
11/1/2021 02:10:53 pm
the only wildlife that wants culling is the human it interfears with everything, wildlife if it had been left alone would have being balenced by itself just same as mother earth it is mans interfearance that has caused all this trouble in this world ,all they can say IS I KNOW BETTER IM AN EXPERT they are Expert at filling there own pockets ,they have CULLED WILDLIFE JUST SO THE BIRDS THEY WANT TO LIVE CAN LIVE, ITS A LOAD OF TROLLOP THEY WILL IN THE END KILL EVERY THING 16/2/2020 08:57:55 pm
Thank god some one with a brain that works.......
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15/2/2020 08:24:19 pm
Absolutely appalling behaviour of cruelty by an organisation that has conned the public into making them one of the richest, in the indiscriminate slaughter of our wildlife, they have no rights to interfere with other creatures by decimating their numbers!! Would never patronise these vile humans and their cohorts!!
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Stuart Ray
18/2/2020 11:08:11 am
YOU just made my case. Mostly NOT our wildlife but introduced species ........ GUILTY AS CHARGED total ignorance on your behalf Townie
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WILLIAM BLACK
15/2/2020 09:17:41 pm
Surely they could have put more effort into culling grey squirrels?
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Mark
16/2/2020 12:10:35 am
That’s my support for you gone, there are plenty of other wildlife/animal organisations out there that show a greater understanding than promoting a cull culture!
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Nigel
16/2/2020 06:04:49 am
Hi Jason,
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Bill Monks
11/3/2020 01:31:53 am
I’m sick to death of people saying “Foxes are pests & need controlling” .. it’s just absolute nonsense.
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Norman Murray
17/10/2020 02:23:27 pm
Foxes are pests and have increase from 7x to 2x depending on which area you live, They are currently stable in rural areas and still increasing in urban areas. In our area we have seen a substantial rise in numbers of foxes shot as the wildlife decreased and the number of lambs killed by foxes increased, rabbit are almost non-existent and rats are few and far between yet foxes continue to increase. Could you explain that if you can ?
Paula
10/1/2023 12:06:22 pm
"The fox is a pest". Well, that just says it all.
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Chris Batchelor
16/2/2020 09:20:11 am
The idea that nature will achieve a balance, so man need not intervene, assumes nature is in balance. We know that this isn't true, because of our unnatural way of life, so simply standing back & letting nature take its course isn't an option. I have no doubt that the RSPB would very much prefer not to have to take these steps. In my opinion they are overwhelmingly a force for good, and essential for the survival of many species, so I will continue to be a member.
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David
16/2/2020 09:46:48 am
There are predators and their prey. Badgers are a protected species and have no predator. Their prey are ground nesting birds nests and their young, frogs and toads, wild bees nests and they dig large holes in grassland that are a hazard to farm animals and machinery, which holes reduce the growth of grass that livestock eat. They are not scarce. The law to protect them was brought in to protect them from badger baiters. They are now a pest that carries the T.B. disease. Where have all the rabbits gone? Eaten by "protected" foxes and buzzards. Song birds nests are preyed on by grey squirrels, magpies, crows and jackdaws. If humans were threatened by so many predators, I am sure we would protect ourselves.
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Tom
16/2/2020 10:03:09 am
To all that are upset about culling,
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sara starkey
16/2/2020 10:10:31 am
The RSPB have been killing animals for years. They have those 'twitchers' who rush out in droves if a rare bird flies into the British Isles by mistake - and often dies of fright from all the hordes of moronic twitters who will drive miles to photograph and gawp at these strangers. At the same time if a 'foreign' bird or animal makes its home here....kill, kill, kill (or as they like to call it 'cull'). https://www.animalaid.org.uk/ruddy-conservationists/
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sara starkey
16/2/2020 10:13:16 am
Animal Aid
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Exactly right Animal Aid. I am also sick to death of humans blaming other species for all the problems. We are to blame for all of it. We have turned our countryside into one giant farmyard and all our wildlife is suffering from the loss of habitat because of it. It's about time we took responsibility for our own actions. We need to give back at least half of what we have taken and rewild. Nature looks after itself when left alone, we need to rewild and then keep our sticky beaks out of it.
Norman Murray
17/10/2020 02:48:37 pm
The Rudy duck was introduced here and were in private collections from where they escaped, they almost wiped out a native species by hybridisation, that is why they were culled.
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B
16/2/2020 07:52:04 pm
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Norman Murray
17/10/2020 03:01:04 pm
Delusional at best.
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Tom Bickerton
17/2/2020 11:29:33 am
On our totally rewilded farm we have operated right from the start a policy that we will not interfere, and it works our species list is second to none. The farm is balanced in terms of prey and predator, we don’t have a problem with corvids, or grey squirrels, as that’s the buzzards and goshawk’s job, and similarly the peregrines deal with the pigeons, I want the deer to nibble about the place.
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Lydia Jackson
18/2/2020 10:06:56 am
Why is it acceptable to cull a species because there is too many of them. There are too many humans in the world but its not acceptable to cull them?
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Roger
3/3/2020 10:12:24 pm
I live on the Shropshire/Wales border which is basically pheasant world. All year round the roads are littered with dead pheasants usually suffering some hideous injury and slow death from being hit by cars. These birds of course provide a permanent larder for all the birds and animals that certain types who live in the countryside love to kill with a disturbing lust. If you talk to these people especially the local farmers and those from the local hunts their knowledge of the natural world around them is at best poor and many of them have little or no interest in it. I have been told by someone who works for a Herefordshire pheasant shoot that they regularly kill Goshawks because 'it's their livelihood' I speak regularly to local people who just seem to kill wildlife because they annoy them or because of some crazy idea perpetrated by those with no knowledge of the environment . What is so depressing is the ease with which we can just kill wildlife with no remorse. Oh and by the way the man who just moans at those he thinks are townies I live in the countryside and always have.
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Stuart Ray
7/3/2020 06:27:11 pm
Well it looks like we are damn near neighbours.I'm from just south of you. Just inside Herefordshire border. and my family worked a dairy farm there for over a 100 years until like nearly all dairy farms in our area, have now closed down. Which I would presume you know as being a knowledgeable country person like myself.... You must also be very aware that the majority of these farms have been bought up by non farming multinational conglomerate companies that have no interest in using these farms for farming but nothing more than land grabs. Convert the farms and farm buildings into dwellings for rich people. They buy to acquire land to sell at a later date purely for profit. (This is exactly what happened to my family's farm buildings and some 450 acres) I am sure you have seen massive reductions in farm animals out in the fields in our area. These people know nothing about laws ascertaining to laws requiring them to the husbandry of the land. Did you know for example and a very pertinent fact at the moment that all farmers/land owners are required by law to keep all ditches, streams, brooks rivers in fact all waterways clear of stones, rubbish mud etc? They are also required to keep pests such as rabbits, most corvidae, foxes, mink grey squirrels in fact all vermin on their land under control. THAT IS THE LAW! Incidentally thats why a great many farms used to allow "The Hunt" (That term is used for fox hunting and incorrectly used by you) in our area as just the fact that that the foxes worked this out went to Church owned farms where they were not allowed to hunt, meant they had to employ other methods of fox control the main one employed was the use of cyanide gas in their dens which had the affect of killing every animal in the soil from insects, beetles, worms and many plants and fungi. Or like Hereford city council humanly caught foxes (because of complaints from people about killing foxes) and after catching the foxes they humanely set them free on Brecon Beacons where they all humanely starved to death (one of the most vile and painful deaths imaginable) because they were town foxes and were not equipped to live out in the wilds...... Now as you know hunting with dogs is illegal and foxes in our area are becoming a big problem. Now you refer to people you know that have spoken about killing of goshawks does happen and if you can give me the name of the shoot I will try to investigate it further. A couple of years ago I gave evidence that convicted a shoot manager of killing by trap and poison of 4 Red Kites he served 2 months at HM pleasure and the shoot owner received a £20,000 fine under the Birds listed on Schedule 2 Part 1 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. (For a raptor that would only take very small pheasant chicks and at that stage would all be under cover anyway. Kites generally eat what crows and buzzards do. Carrion, frogs etc). That was a shoot near Craven Arms. Now as for your knowledge and your terminology leaves a lot to be desired and shows you also have little knowledge of what you profess to know......... Try looking up the late Professor David Bellamy he has done loads of work, written and done lots of TV work (much available on you tube) just relating to the pheasant, grouse and deer shoots around the country Lets face it you would never see wild red deer or pheasants anywhere in the country if it were not for toffs paying vast amounts of money and how other local wildlife,environment and local employment all benefit. If you live in my area then take a quiet walk around the river Lugg around Aymestrey and and upstream you wont believe what you can see along its banks and in the waters along with american crayfish and mink all invasive and non indigenous species as indeed are pheasants ....... so get a proper education and open your eyes to wider possibilities other than run over birds that feed incidentally things like ravens, kites, buzzards and a whole lot more. I grew up in this area and the education it gave me you cant learn from a book......
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Norman Murray
17/10/2020 03:31:33 pm
You seem to think an awful lot of your knowledge, yet country people are ignorant, I take offence to your arrogance in this matter. You do realise that Goshawks are an introduced species unlike the Eagle owls that the RSPB want to eradicate, the Eagle owl has naturally colonised the UK from the Scandinavian area, arriving usually in Shetland and Orkney as does the Snowy owl, the eagle owl has found the UK to it's liking as there are plenty of it's favourite prey which is other raptors which we have plenty of to satisfy the eagle owl.
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Norman Murray
17/10/2020 03:16:01 pm
All good, but kites will take pheasant poults and in general are kept at an artificially high level by feeding stations, if these feeding stations were to close, the local wildlife will suffer as will the Red kites that depended on the feeding stations.
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Ronald wright
18/10/2020 04:57:07 pm
Consider the number of perigrin & sparrow hawks now protected by the RSBP. IF each take just one prey per day for one year it equates to a sum total of some 24,000,000.
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Bob
21/11/2020 01:01:31 pm
No one has mentioned Chris Packham..! He is the RSPB vice president he knows what's been going on yet says nothing. But he is quick to condemn gamekeepers because they control predators while his own organisation is doing the same.
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21/11/2020 03:35:21 pm
I'm really not surprised I've been fighting this for many many years used to raise lots of money for the organisation but stopped about 25 years ago and it's time they were stopped the only thing that really needs culling is the human animal.
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Dick Glasgow
13/1/2021 12:49:37 pm
While people here are questioning the RSPB's right to cull 600 Foxes, in order to protect rare & endangered UK species, let's not forget that Gamekeepers & Farmers kill, at least, 80,000 Foxes each year & that is a conservative estimate, as nobody is actually under any obligation to record just how many they kill! ...
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ErichM
7/11/2023 09:47:12 pm
But gamekeepers get away with it because they have the full support of the RSPB which is odd as Chris Packham - their vice president claims to be against grouse shooting but not it seems when supported by the RSPB … hypocrisy knows no bounds. I just left the RSPB because of its hypocrisy- I would expect a pro birding organisation to be just that but the RSPB have its own agenda
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Ed Dundee
24/5/2022 09:41:17 am
In case you haven’t realised they’ve been doing it for years. Figures for 2020 - 1200 deer, 500 foxes, 100 mink, 400 corvids and 500 geese.
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Lenn Morris
25/4/2023 08:24:25 am
Hi Jason, I have recently been investigating various bad things of the RSPB. Have contacted Kevin Cox, he rufesses to answer serious questions of importance.
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David McCormick
6/9/2023 10:28:39 am
Have read all the comments and have decided to cancel my membership to an organisation that is clearly corrupt.
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ErichM
7/11/2023 09:43:36 pm
I’ve just resigned my membership of the RSPB for a number of reasons- primarily because they don’t actually care about birds - tho they’re not as bad as the WWT who shoot wild birds and pinion others. They are pro grouse shooting; hypocritical with regards to Sizewell C and give 10% of members funds to saving tigers in Sumatra (last time I looked tigers weren’t actually birds). I’ve hiked the Pennines Way where birds are minimum. The effect of killing crows is to create villages of crows that have been wiped out elsewhere whilst hooded crows are becoming rare. It really sickens me that so called “nature” organisations are so shallow
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Jay
6/1/2024 05:44:31 pm
Thank you for the heads up in relation to the RSPB's nefarious activities. I was going to join this organisation. I will give it a wide berth now.
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