Outrageous Curlew Slaughter

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I think the operative word, OP, is slaughter. Typical butchery from the French.

David, Chris Packham took a lot of stick from the so called "popular press" for challenging Natural England on this. You may have been abroad at the time.

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.

https://www.change.org/p/natural-england-stop-the-legalised-killing-of-ravens-and-other-wild-birds-in-england

 

 

Thanks for the link, Nellie.

Curlews breed on our local moors, and it always an absolute joy to see and hear them flying overhead.

To think they will later come to grief for absolutely no reason is just awful.

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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.

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.

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😢

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