





Regular readers will know of my anger and dismay at the UK Government and the government agency ‘Natural England’ for authorising licenses to remove nests and eggs of Buzzards to ‘protect’ Pheasant shooting interests. You can read my post on this here: http://www.theinkednaturalist.co.uk/buzzards-the-final-straw/ I would also urge you to read Alan Tilmouth’s excellently detailed post [...] IWEBIX Webdesign
Today I read in the Guardian that a government agency had issues licenses to destroy the eggs and nests of Buzzards to ‘protect’ pheasant shoots. The Buzzard is a protected species; so the fact that licenses have been issued to destroy part of the population of this raptor in order to ‘protect’ captive bred non-native [...]
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