davekeiller wrote:I still think we should let the estate give us their side of the story.
Their reply might go something like this -
“Killing the thousands of pheasants we rear each year is perfectly legal, that’s what we rear them for - to blast out the sky for fun!. We also have to protect all those thousands of pheasants, so we indiscriminately obliterate any natural predators - stoat, weasel, squirrel, rabbit, hare, fox, birds of prey (yes, we kill them too, even iconic birds like golden eagles!). We don’t have any interest in species diversity, we just want the pheasants because they make us money, that’s why our estate supports nothing else, it’s just pheasants that matter. Oh, and we are within the law. I know our gamekeepers break the law all the time but we realise that video evidence doesn’t count unless we’re told in advance so we can shoot stuff that’s protected. Well, it threatens the pheasants so it needs to be shot. It’s a lovely place our estate, don’t you think?”
