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Rosemary's avatar

I love to hear of all the local community groups that bond together to save wildlife and are not afraid to confront the arrogant, selfish, entitled wealthy minority. It would be great to highlight a list of those active campaigners who can contact each other and pool ideas.

Lisa Cooney's avatar

Surely even a private landowner is subject to legislation which protects wildlife, nature and the environment. A crime is still a crime even if committed on private property. If the owner has any shred of decency left, the lands should be signed over for rewilding. An imbalance in nature is usually the result of human greed and/or interference and nature will fix itself if left alone to heal.

Charlie Moores's avatar

Hi Lisa. Thanks for commenting. We couldn't agree more. On your broader point, I'm sure you know this but there are two problems when it comes to legislation. The first is that much of the legislation was written by landowners (Parliament was only open to landowners when much of the legislation around land rights and early wildlife protection etc was passed) so is slanted heavily in their favour), and even when there is legislation to protect wildlife it is often riddled with loopholes and exemptions and there is very little to zero enforcement. That may have once sounded like a form of 'conspiracy theory' or 'opinion', but it is very much the fact.