Thanks Graham. Interesting comment. There is a flood of the very rich leaving the UK to save tax, and there will be landowners weighing up whether carbon storage is a better alternative. I wonder though whether ex-pats will continue to helicopter in from tax havens - or landowners will switch to serving up pheasants which are cheaper to rear, far more predicitable in numbers, and can be raised on sub-optimal moorland. What do readers think?
Hi Charlie, thanks for educating so many people about these wretched owners of large Estates and their gamekeepers who are fixated on death and cruelty towards birdlife and other wildlife to suit their own pathetic interests. Unfortunately they are well-connected but it’s well overdue that such abuse is well and truly ended for the sake of such wonderful wildlife
Have always hated these wretched ‘shoots’ of innocent birds, many reared specifically to be released for a short time into the wild then slaughtered like fish in a barrel by people who get a high from having the power of life and death over largely helpless little beings. It also reminds me of the correlation between stalking and killing helpless birds and regarding human beings with contempt, of those who do not fit into the strata in which these slaughteres mingle, in that they would so much more easily accept or even instigate, the slaughter of human beings just as is happening in Palestine with the UK Government largely silent and largely complicit in the wholesale slaughter of innocent little children, the human little birds that cannot escape, for those who slaughter birds have proven themselves to be of no conscience and therefore will kill with impunity and devoid of an internal moral compass. So to me, such bird ‘sports’ as practiced by humans of such a mentality, is a mortal danger, not just to these beautiful birds, but to human life itself - or certain sections of human life which, to these people is regarded as being disposable without so much as a second thought to their suffering, inasmuch as they regard the snuffing out of birdlife, is equally of no consequence. The day that human consciousness evolves to one based on compassion, cannot come soon enough, Charlie
I fully agree with you Charlie and Protect the Wild!! The one and only answer to all this is a complete ban on shooting and grouse shooting "estates"! Licencing grouse shooting "estates" condones and accepts birds being killed, which is abhorrently barbaric and completely uneccessary, rather than helping to stop it all for good!!
Hi Cara. Thanks. I keep forgetting that word 'condone' -that's exactly the word I was looking for but somehow missed! I might have to make a sneaky edit and insert it...in fact, I'm going to that right now! :)
Hopefully economic pressure will force the closure of grouse shoots, particularly with all the big money leaving the country.
Thanks Graham. Interesting comment. There is a flood of the very rich leaving the UK to save tax, and there will be landowners weighing up whether carbon storage is a better alternative. I wonder though whether ex-pats will continue to helicopter in from tax havens - or landowners will switch to serving up pheasants which are cheaper to rear, far more predicitable in numbers, and can be raised on sub-optimal moorland. What do readers think?
Hi Charlie, thanks for educating so many people about these wretched owners of large Estates and their gamekeepers who are fixated on death and cruelty towards birdlife and other wildlife to suit their own pathetic interests. Unfortunately they are well-connected but it’s well overdue that such abuse is well and truly ended for the sake of such wonderful wildlife
Thank you Jeanne. We seem to be 100% aligned in our views :)
Have always hated these wretched ‘shoots’ of innocent birds, many reared specifically to be released for a short time into the wild then slaughtered like fish in a barrel by people who get a high from having the power of life and death over largely helpless little beings. It also reminds me of the correlation between stalking and killing helpless birds and regarding human beings with contempt, of those who do not fit into the strata in which these slaughteres mingle, in that they would so much more easily accept or even instigate, the slaughter of human beings just as is happening in Palestine with the UK Government largely silent and largely complicit in the wholesale slaughter of innocent little children, the human little birds that cannot escape, for those who slaughter birds have proven themselves to be of no conscience and therefore will kill with impunity and devoid of an internal moral compass. So to me, such bird ‘sports’ as practiced by humans of such a mentality, is a mortal danger, not just to these beautiful birds, but to human life itself - or certain sections of human life which, to these people is regarded as being disposable without so much as a second thought to their suffering, inasmuch as they regard the snuffing out of birdlife, is equally of no consequence. The day that human consciousness evolves to one based on compassion, cannot come soon enough, Charlie
I fully agree with you Charlie and Protect the Wild!! The one and only answer to all this is a complete ban on shooting and grouse shooting "estates"! Licencing grouse shooting "estates" condones and accepts birds being killed, which is abhorrently barbaric and completely uneccessary, rather than helping to stop it all for good!!
Hi Cara. Thanks. I keep forgetting that word 'condone' -that's exactly the word I was looking for but somehow missed! I might have to make a sneaky edit and insert it...in fact, I'm going to that right now! :)
Hello Charlie. You are most welcome ❤️! I am glad my comment is helpful!