On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:03:40 +0100, amacmil304@aol.com wrote:
>Persecution of Birds by the RSPB
>
>In the minds of most people, the RSPB is an organisation that protects
>birds but in reality there is another side to them.
>
>Early in 2003, I came across a British Association for Shooting and
>Conservation web-page, where it was revealed that shooters were
>"managing" a wildfowl reserve for the RSPB. Within a day of me
>bringing this to the attention of an Internet Newsgroup, the page was
>removed from the Internet. Following a telephone call to the RSPB
>headquarters in Edinburgh, I wrote to them asking if they would
>identify the location of this reserve. They didn't reply.
>
>Consequently, I started to do some research and found that shooting
>tenants on their Abernethy Reserve kill about 200 brace of red grouse
>each year. The RSPB's explanation is, "it is good for public relations
>as the reserve is then not seen as divorced from normal country
>pursuits.
>
>Following that, I came across a message from a contributor to an
>Internet wildfowling magazine. "I shoot over marches owned by the
>RSPB. They lease the Humber wildfowlers the shooting on there and I
>suppose we sort of police them for the RSPB. Ironic how they publicly
>attack us but still let us shoot on there". The writer was a serving
>police officer.
>
>Apart from the RSPB's continued advocacy for the slaughter of Ruddy
>Ducks, Uist Hedgehogs, Lundy Rats and various species of deer, it
>seems they are also involved with those who shoot birds for fun and
>recreation.
>Some way of "protecting" birds!
>
>In my opinion, to solicit money from the general public for the
>"protection of birds", then to allow them to be shot on "reserves",
>which should be safe havens, is at the very least deception and at
>worst fraud.
>
>
>A bit more from:
>
>"PAGHAM HARBOUR LOCAL NATURE RESERVE ADVISORY BOARD
>8TH SEPTEMBER 2004
>If not written policy, it is common practice for the EA regions to let
>sporting rights on sites with nature
>conservation designations (e.g. SSSIs) where proposals meet EN's (or
>CCW's) conservation objectives and consent has been granted under the
>Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 as amended by the Countryside & Rights
>of Way Act 2000.
>
>In addition to this NGO conservation bodies such as the Wildlife
>Trusts and RSPB have wildfowling tenants on their reserves. Examples
>include Montrose Basin (Scottish Wildlife Trust, Angus), Frampton
>Marsh (RSPB, Lincolnshire), Ouse Washes (RSPB, Cambridgeshire), Tetney
>Marshes (RSPB, Lincolnshire). Locally, RSPB let sporting rights to
>Langstone & District Wildfowling & Conservation Association
>(L&DW&CA) at the Langstone Harbour RSPB reserve. Wardening at
>Langstone Harbour is a co-operative and joint venture between RSPB,
>Local Authority and L&DW&CA. In many cases wildfowling clubs lease
>sporting rights jointly with conservation bodies to allow for
>cooperative and integrated management. Nearby examples include
>Langstone & District Wildfowling & Conservation Association's joint
>Crown Estate leases with the Hampshire Wildlife Trust and RSPB. In
>some cases wildfowling clubs jointly own freehold with
>conservation bodies - e.g. Fenla nd Wildfowlers Association jointly
>own c. 250 acres of the Welney Reserve (Ouse Washes) with the Wildfowl
>& Wetlands Trust (WWT)."
>
That's the CON in CONservation. Since I stopped donating money to
crooked charities like the RSPB, I have been able to go to the top of
the property ladder!
Amazing how naive some of us are in trusting charities these days!
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Avoid the rush at the last judgement. Be converted now instead!
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