KILLERS ARE EVERYWHERE

KILLERS ARE OUT THERE. KILLERS SEEM TO BE EVERYWHERE
I follow the Raptor Persecution site and it is evident that birds of prey are being shot, traps are set with a prey target in the killer’s mind, but only to entrap anything regardless. The list is long.

For example on 30th June a Peregrine and two Buzzards were found dead in South Wales
In July a Red Kite shot dead in Kent, another Red Kite in the Yorkshire Dales and a Buzzard and Barn Owl found dead in Dorset. It is a litany of killing especially when a game killer announces that in Scotland ‘the Raven Cull’ has been a success!

And then the Hunt Investigation Team have observed masked gunmen killing ensnared animals. It it is of an industrial scale of killing that is occurring.

The details are there to be read and blogs on the Raptor Persecution site are regularly posted if not daily.

There are killers out there with shooting estates employing ‘game keepers’ who are there solely for the purpose of ensuring that ‘their’ birds are kept from any natural danger, but live long enough to be shot by those that pay for that ‘entitlement’. Their ‘gain’ is at an enormous loss for the majority.

I can add to this by saying since my arrival in England I have not seen a Swift, Swallow or House Martin from Masham and Harrogate in Yorkshire, and none in Rothwell or Stratford upon Avon. We sat overlooking the river with a clear view and only gulls or pigeons flew into our vision.

There are many ways that the human race kills with chemicals, habitat loss and lack of nesting sites being the common norm. Intensive agriculture has caused a major decline in ‘so called farmland birds’ but there are islands of hope where habitat has been restored. We need to do more. We need to focus on what we have lost and what we can still gain. I hope to be there on 22nd September with Chris Packham in the Walk for Wildlife.